delectatus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delecto, delectare, delectavi, delectatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
delight, please, amuse, fascinate; charm, lure, entice; be a source of delight;; (PASS) be delighted/glad, take pleasure; (w/INF) enjoy (being/doing);
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →delector, delectari, delectatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
delight, please, amuse, fascinate; charm, lure, entice; be a source of delight;; (PASS) be delighted/glad, take pleasure; (w/INF) enjoy (being/doing);
nom. sg. perf. part.
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...respueret, huius tamen verbi in ea parte sonitu delectatus: "Sacerdotes" inquit "Cereris atque illius fani antistitae". XXIII. Vsque..."Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...dicant?' Ad ea Taurus uultu iam propemodum laetiore – delectatus enim uidebatur inlecebra quaestionis – : 'si iam amicus' inquit..."Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...comoedia versum hunc: scrattae, scrupedae, strittivillae sordidae, delectatus faceta verborum antiquitate meretricum vitia atque deformitates significantium: "vel unus..."Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...gestam comperit, statim admitti iussit, magnopere delectatus cum facto tum ornatu, in primis quod nobilis rex in potestatem..."Dion
Cornelius Nepos
"...totum traderet. Neque vero minus ipse Plato delectatus est Dione. Itaque cum a tyranno crudeliter violatus esset, quippe..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...admonebat, nubes minabantur; tamen exhausi totum. Non tantum delectatus sed gavisus sum. Quid ingenii iste habuit, quid animi..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...quod non tota capita praecidit? nouo genere poenae delectatus est. 2. Tale aliquid passi forent et Aethiopes..."APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...exitum poterat. Tum Mercurius, qui semper ingenio eius delectatus esset, unam e tribus Parcis seducit et ait: "Quid..."