delectationis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delectatio, delectationis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
conferring/gaining delight; (source of) delight/pleasure/enjoyment/amusement;; straining/effort/tenesmus; inclination/futile straining to void bowels/bladder;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.
Examples
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...video, ut cum omnia utilitati, tum partem quandam delectationi daret, cum et suam se rem agere diceret, ageret..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...superfuerunt: et Vibius Crispus compositus et iucundus et delectationi natus, privatis tamen causis quam publicis melior. CXX. Iulio..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...conteruntur, geometrae potius ac musico inpendat, quanto plus delectationis habiturus quam ex illis ineruditis voluptatibus. Dedit enim..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...sessiunculas consectari. quin ne bestiae quidem, quas delectationis causa concludimus, cum copiosius alantur, quam si essent liberae, facile..."