“delight” in Latin

delectatio (real positive pleasure or enjoyment). (The words are found in this connection and order.) delectatio jucunditasque; suavitas et delectatio; delectatio et voluptas: oblectatio (relative pleasure, from conversation, amusement, etc.): delectamentum (rare; Cic., Pis., 25, 60; inania sunt ista delectamenta paene puerorum): deliciae (objectively; as conferring delight): oblectamentum (that which amuses; with genitive of object or subject; e.g., senectutis; rerum rusticarum): amoenitas (beauty of country, etc., amoenitates orarum et litorum): to take delight in anything, magnam voluptatem capere or percipere ex aliqua re; aliquid in deliciis habere; delectari aliqua re; alicujus rei studio captum esse: to take no delight in anything, abhorrere, alienum esse ab aliqua re. Vid: PLEASURE.

TR. delectare (to give a high degree of positive pleasure): oblectare (to confer a relative pleasure; amuse, dispel wearisomeness and unpleasant feelings), laetitia afficere; laetitia et voluptate afficere; voluptate afficere, perfundere (to delight or fill with pleasure): permulcere (to delight or affect with pleasurable sensations; e.g., the ears or the hearing): to delight the eyes with anything, pascere oculos aliqua re; fructum capere oculis ex re (by beholding it); fructum capere oculis in aliqua re facienda (to find extreme pleasure in doing anything; e.g., in alicujus corpore lacerando, Cic., Phil., 11, 3, 8); dare oculis epulas (comedy): to have one’s mind as much delighted as one’s palate, non minus animo quam ventre delectari (at a feast).

To delight one’s self, or to be delighted with anything [Vid: “to DELIGHT in,” INTRANS.] , se delectare; se oblectare; delectari, oblectari aliqua re; gaudere aliqua re; laetari aliqua re; voluptatem capere or percipere ex re; gaudium, laetitiam capere ex re; pascere animum, or merely pasci aliqua re (to delight one’s eyes with an object; e.g., a picture, pictura.); alicujus rei voluptate animum explere (to satiate the mind, as it were, with anything; e.g., with a very pleasant reading, jucundissimae lectionis). To be excessively delighted, valde gaudere; gaudere vehementerque laetari: I am delighted, that, etc., gaudeo with accusative and infinitive, or quod, etc. in hoc delector, quod, etc. I am excessively (beyond measure, etc.) delighted, that, etc., sane gaudeo, quod, etc.; in hoc admodum delector, quod, etc. I am (excessively) delighted to hear, that Caes. loves you better every day, quod scribis te a Caesare quotidie plus diligi, immortaliter gaudeo (Cic., Ep.): anything or anybody delights me, gratum, jucundum est mini aliquid; probatur mihi aliquid, or aliquis; arridet mihi aliquid; est aliquid or aliquis in deliciis meis; est aliquid stomachi mei (according to the vulgar saying, it is meat and drink to me): this place delights me, *hic locus mihi arridet: delights me exceedingly, hic mihi praeter omnes locus arridet (Hor., Od., 2, 6, 13): to be highly delighted, maxima laetitia perfusum esse; laetitia exsultare or efferri.

INTR., To delight in anything, gaudere aliqua re (of the inward feeling of delight in moderation; whether habitual or in a single instance; e.g., aequitate: equis, pictis tabellis): delectari aliqua re (to take pleasure in habitually; e.g., honore, vestitu cultuque corporis, etc.): gestire aliqua re (to feel delight one cannot conceal; to be elevated by it; e.g., apricitate diei, Col.; otio, Liv.; secundis rebus, Liv.): exsultare (to leap, as it were, for joy; to exult in: equi ferocitate exsultantes, Cic.): laetari (to rejoice in; e.g., equus, quo maxime laetabatur, Suet.; also IMPROP., of plants, etc., liking a particular soil; Col.): oblectare se in aliqua re (to amuse one’s self with a pursuit; e.g., in agri cultione, Cic.): alicujus rei studiosum esse (to be fond of a pursuit; e.g., venandi, Cic.): alicujus rei studio captum esse or teneri (in the same sense). ☞ Delectari with infinitive is poetical; e.g., delectaris bibere humanum sanguinem (Phaedrus) for biben do humano sanguine. Vid: “to be delighted with” under DELIGHT, TRANS.