delicatissimi
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;
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.)
Examples
- G
Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...medias civitates ritu triumphantium vectus est, perque flumina delicatissimis navigiis et variarum coronarum genere redimit, inter profusissimos obsoniorum..." - M
Liber Primus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...nostris poetis aut inertissimae segnitiae est aut fastidii delicatissimi. mihi quidem nulli satis eruditi videntur, quibus nostra ignota..."
