delectaverit
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);
sg. futperf. act. ind. 3rdsg. perf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...vobis morae; tibicen vos interibi hic delectaverit.— 573a ACTVS II II.i PSEVDOLVS Pro Iuppiter, ut mihi, quidquid..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...propositum revertar, audi quid me in epistula tua delectaverit: habes verba in potestate, non effert te oratio..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...tibi mercedulam debeo, quid me hodie apud Hecatonem delectaverit dicam. 'Quaeris' inquit 'quid profecerim? amicus esse mihi coepi..."