delicium

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From dēlicere (“to entice, to snare; to delight”) +‎ -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from dē- +‎ lacere (“to entice, to snare”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, to pull”), with no known cognates in any other Indo-European languages.

Pronunciation

Noun

dēlicium n (genitive dēliciī or dēlicī); second declension

  1. delight, pleasure
    Synonyms: gaudium, dēlectātiō, voluptās, laetitia, frūctus, alacritās
    Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, dēsīderium
  2. darling, pet
  3. (figuratively) a prepubescent or adolescent boy who served as a sex slave, chosen for his supposed beauty
    Synonyms: catamītus, puer dēlicātus

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative dēlicium dēlicia
genitive dēliciī
dēlicī1 		dēliciōrum
dative dēliciō dēliciīs
accusative dēlicium dēlicia
ablative dēliciō dēliciīs
vocative dēlicium dēlicia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • French: délice

References

  • “delicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “delicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • delicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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