deliciosus
Latin
Etymology
From dēliciae + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deː.li.kiˈoː.sus/, [d̪eːlʲɪkiˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.li.t͡ʃiˈo.sus/, [d̪elit͡ʃiˈɔːs̬us]
Adjective
dēliciōsus (feminine dēliciōsa, neuter dēliciōsum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)
- delicious
- delicate
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dēliciōsus | dēliciōsa | dēliciōsum | dēliciōsī | dēliciōsae | dēliciōsa | |
| Genitive | dēliciōsī | dēliciōsae | dēliciōsī | dēliciōsōrum | dēliciōsārum | dēliciōsōrum | |
| Dative | dēliciōsō | dēliciōsō | dēliciōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | dēliciōsum | dēliciōsam | dēliciōsum | dēliciōsōs | dēliciōsās | dēliciōsa | |
| Ablative | dēliciōsō | dēliciōsā | dēliciōsō | dēliciōsīs | |||
| Vocative | dēliciōse | dēliciōsa | dēliciōsum | dēliciōsī | dēliciōsae | dēliciōsa | |
Descendants
- English: delicious
- French: délicieux
- Italian: delizioso
- Ligurian: deliçiôzo
- Portuguese: delicioso
- Romanian: delicios
- Spanish: delicioso
References
- “deliciosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- deliciosus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- deliciosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- deliciosus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016