delectus

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English

Etymology

From Latin delectus (“selection”), from deligo (“to select”).

Noun

delectus (plural delectuses)

  1. (obsolete) An elementary reader (collection of passages) for learners of a language
    • 1871-2, George Eliot, Middlemarch, volume I, book IV, chapter 37
      If she spoke with any keenness of interest to Mr. Casaubon, he heard her with an air of patience as if she had given a quotation from the Delectus familiar to him from his tender years, and sometimes mentioned curtly what ancient sects or personages had held similar ideas, as if there were too much of that sort in stock already; at other times he would inform her that she was mistaken, and reassert what her remark had questioned.
    • 1872, Matthew Arnold, “General Report for the Year 1872”, in Sir Francis Sanford, editor, Reports on Elementary Schools 1852-1882:
      I am convinced that for his purpose the best way would be to disregard classical Latin entirely, to use neither Cornelius Nepos, nor Eutropius, nor Cæsar, nor any delectus from them, but to use the Latin Bible, the Vulgate.

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dēligō (“ pick off; select”).

Participle

dēlēctus (feminine dēlēcta, neuter dēlēctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. picked off, having been picked off, plucked off, having been plucked off; culled, having been culled
  2. chosen, having been chosen, selected, having been selected

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative dēlēctus dēlēcta dēlēctum dēlēctī dēlēctae dēlēcta
genitive dēlēctī dēlēctae dēlēctī dēlēctōrum dēlēctārum dēlēctōrum
dative dēlēctō dēlēctae dēlēctō dēlēctīs
accusative dēlēctum dēlēctam dēlēctum dēlēctōs dēlēctās dēlēcta
ablative dēlēctō dēlēctā dēlēctō dēlēctīs
vocative dēlēcte dēlēcta dēlēctum dēlēctī dēlēctae dēlēcta

Noun

dēlēctus m (genitive dēlēctūs); fourth declension

  1. selection, choice, distinction
  2. levy, recruiting

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dēlēctus dēlēctūs
genitive dēlēctūs dēlēctuum
dative dēlēctuī dēlēctibus
accusative dēlēctum dēlēctūs
ablative dēlēctū dēlēctibus
vocative dēlēctus dēlēctūs

Descendants

  • Catalan: delit
  • Italian: diletto

References

  • “delectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “delectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • delectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “delectus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “delectus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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