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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German Delikatesse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: de‧li‧ka‧te‧sa
Noun
delikatesa f
- delicacy (pleasing food)
- Synonym: lahůdka
Declension
Declension of delikatesa (hard feminine)
Further reading
- “delikatesa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “delikatesa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “delikatesa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
Kashubian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Delikatesse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛ.li.kaˈtɛ.sa/
- Rhymes: -ɛsa
- Syllabification: de‧li‧ka‧te‧sa
Noun
delikatesa m inan
- delicacy (pleasing food)
- Synonyms: przësmak, smaczk
Further reading
- Jan Trepczyk (1994) “rarytas”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “delikates”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From French délicatesse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /delikatěsa/
- Hyphenation: de‧li‧ka‧te‧sa
Noun
delikatèsa f (Cyrillic spelling деликатѐса)
- delicacy (pleasing food)
Declension
References
- “delikatesa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025