delicatiore
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delicatus, delicata -um, delicatior -or -us, delicatissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
luxurious/sumptuous, addicted to pleasure; self-indulgent/comfortable; pampered;; foppish, effeminate; polite, elegant; charming; tender; voluptuous; wanton;; skittish/frisky/frivolous; fastidious/squeamish; delicate/dainty/pretty/fine;
abl. sg. (all)
Examples
Liber V
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...mihi cycnis, agno Galaesi mollior Phalantini, concha Lucrini delicatior stagni, cui nec lapillos praeferas Erythraeos nec modo politum..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...Vultus illam securior, uox clarior, sermo liberior, cultus delicatior, aduocatio ambitiosior, fauor popularis exasperant; saepe infesta patrono reum..."IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...vicarias manus. quid vis porro faciam? agrestia opera? delicatior, quod a fortuna non didici, et cotidiani quaestus operis..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...viridissimo nupta flore puella et puella tenellulo delicatior haedo, adservanda nigerrimis diligentius uuis, ludere hanc sinit ut lubet..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...possit beatam praestare vitam sapientia. Haec mihi videtur delicatior, ut ita dicam, molliorque ratio, quam virtutis vis gravitasque..."