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delicium
delicium
Latin
Alternative forms
Noun
dēlicium n (genitive dēliciī); second declension
- delight, pleasure
- (figuratively) A slave child, customarily kept by the Romans to provide entertainment.
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “delicium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.