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dēlectābĭlis, e, adj. [delecto], delectable, delightful, agreeable (post-Aug. for jucundus, amoenus): cibus, Tac. A. 12, 67: apologi (with festivi), Gell. 2, 29; Vulg. Gen. 3, 6; Lact. 6, 4, 3; 7, 7, 13.
Comp.: tibia questu, App. Flor. no. 17.
Adv.: delec-tabiliter, delightfully: ac decore depicta, Gell. 13, 24, 17: et feliciter declamare, id. 15, 1.
Comp.: delectabilius, Aug. de Don. Persev. 53.
dēlectāmentum, i, n. [delecto], a delight (very rare): pro delectamento, amusement, pastime, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 79: delectamenta puerorum, etc., Cic. Pis. 25, 60: pacis, Nazar. Paneg. Const. 35: somni, Vulg. Sap. 7, 2.
dēlectātĭo, ōnis, f. [delecto],
- I. a delighting, delight, pleasure, amusement (freq. and good prose): delectatio voluptas suavitate auditus animum deleniens, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 9: homo videndi et audiendi delectatione ducitur, id. Off. 1, 30; so, conviviorum, id. de Sen. 13, 45. More freq. without gen.: mira quaedam in cognoscendo suavitas et delectatio, Cic. de Or. 1, 43, 193; so, jucunditas delectatioque, id. ib. 3, 38, 155; with voluptas, id. Fam. 9, 24, 2: (doctrina et literae), quae secundis rebus delectationem modo habere, videbantur, nunc vero etiam salutem, id. ib. 6, 12 fin.: gratiam et delectationem afferunt, Quint. 2, 13, 11; 9, 4, 9 et saep.; Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 34: in amicitia, Vulg. Sap. 8, 18.
In plural, Cic. Mur. 19, 39 al.
- II. As medic. t. t., a straining, effort, tenesmus (late Lat.): frequens ventris egerendi, Cael. Aur. Tard. 4, 6, 88; 4, 3, 46.
dēlectātĭuncŭla, ae, f., dim. [delectatio], a trifling pleasure, petty delight, Gell. praef. § 23.