deleitar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese deleitar, from Old Occitan deleitar, from Latin delectare (“to charm”).

• IPA^(key): /delejˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

deleitar (first-person singular present deleito, first-person singular preterite deleitei, past participle deleitado)

1. to please, delight
2. (pronominal) to take delight

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “deleytar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “deleitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “deleitar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from Occitan, Provençal, and Catalan deleitar, from Latin delectare (“to charm”).

• IPA^(key): /deleiˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧lei‧tar

deleitar (first-person singular present deleito, first-person singular preterite deleité, past participle deleitado)

1. to please, delight
2. (reflexive) to take delight

• gustar

• “deleitar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10