English → Latin
“delicately” in Latin
teneōto hold, have; to grasp; to possess, occupy, control; to watch, guard, maintain, defend; to retain, keeptenersoft, delicate, tender; young, youthful; effeminate, sensitivemollissoft, delicate to the touch; pliant, flexible, supple; mild, tenderdēlicātusalluring, charming, delightful; voluptuous; soft, tender, delicate; effeminate, spoilt with indulgenceēlegānsfine, elegant, handsome; tasteful; fastidious, criticalsubtīlisfine, thin, slender; precise, accurate, keen; plain, unadorned, simple
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
delicately
Tenderly, softly, tenere or tenerius (post-Augustan): molliter: delicate. (The words are found in this connection and order.) molliter et delicate; delicate ac molliter: to live delicately, molliter se curare (Terentianus); delicate ac molliter vivere (Cic.). I have brought you up too delicately, nimium te habui delicatum (Plaut.).
Finely, elegantly, exquisite: mirabili opere (Cic.): eleganter: subtiliter. SYN. of adjectives under DELICATE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for delicately?
- The usual Latin words for “delicately” are teneō, tener, mollis; also dēlicātus, ēlegāns, subtīlis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.