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
- M
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..."