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..."- L
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..." - M
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..." - G
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..." - M
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..."