Lewis & Short

Parsing inflected forms may not always work as expected. If the following does not give the correct word, try Latin Words or Perseus.

The word oblectari could not be parsed. Trying a normal dictionary lookup:

No entries found. Showing closest matches:

ob-lectābĭlis, e, adj. [oblecto], delightful, pleasant (post-class.): negotium, Aus. Ep. 19.

ob-lectāmen, ĭnis, n. [oblecto], a delight (poet. for oblectamentum, and perh. only in plur.), Ov. M. 9, 342: vitae, Stat. S. 3, 5, 95: consulat ut sacras, hominum oblectamina, sortes, sources of consolation, Ov. M. 11, 412.

ob-lectāmentum, i, n. [oblecto], a delight, pleasure, amusement (class.; cf.: voluptas, deliciae); with gen. obj.: requies oblectamentumque senectutis, Cic. Sen. 15, 52: oblectamenta puerorum, id. Par. 5, 2, 38: oblectamenta et solatia servitutis, id. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 134: gulae, Plin. 21, 11, 39, § 68.
With gen. subj.: rerum rusticarum, Cic. Sen. 16, 55.
Absol.: erat ei in oblectamentis draco serpens, Suet. Tib. 72.

oblectānĕus, a, um, adj. [oblecto], delightful, pleasant, Inscr. Grut. 304, 1.

ob-lectātĭo, ōnis, f. [oblecto], a delighting, delight (a favorite word of Cic.): indagatio ipsa habet oblectationem, Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 127: animi, id. de Or. 1, 26, 118: curarum, id. Off. 2, 6: vitae, id. Fin. 5, 19, 53: requies plena oblectationis fuit, id. Lael. 27, 103.

ob-lectātor, ōris, m. [oblecto], a delighter, pleaser, charmer (post-class.): beluarum, App. Flor. p. 358, 17: hominis, Tert. Cor. Mil. 8 fin.

ob-lectātōrĭus, a, um, adj. [oblecto], delighting, pleasing (post-class.): aenigmata, Gell. 18, 2 in lemm.