delicatus

Latin

From dēliciae, from dēliciō, from dē + laciō.

dēlicātus (feminine dēlicāta, neuter dēlicātum, comparative dēlicātior, superlative dēlicātissimus); first/second-declension adjective

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	dēlicātus	dēlicāta	dēlicātum	dēlicātī	dēlicātae	dēlicāta
genitive	dēlicātī	dēlicātae	dēlicātī	dēlicātōrum	dēlicātārum	dēlicātōrum
dative	dēlicātō	dēlicātae	dēlicātō	dēlicātīs
accusative	dēlicātum	dēlicātam	dēlicātum	dēlicātōs	dēlicātās	dēlicāta
ablative	dēlicātō	dēlicātā	dēlicātō	dēlicātīs
vocative	dēlicāte	dēlicāta	dēlicātum	dēlicātī	dēlicātae	dēlicāta

Italian: delicato
Old French:
- Old French: delïé (from delicatus)
  - French: délié
- Old French: delgié, dogié (from delicatus)
  - French: dougé (archaic), deugé (dialectal or archaic, Normandy)
Old Galician-Portuguese: delgado
- Galician: delgado
- Portuguese: delgado
Old Leonese:
- Asturian: delgáu
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: delgat
Old Spanish:
- Spanish: delgado
Piedmontese: dlicà
Sicilian: dilicatu
Venetan: dełicato, dełicao
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: delicat
- → Galician: delicado
- → Middle English: delicat
  - English: delicate
    - → Japanese: デリケート (derikēto)
- → Middle French: delicat (see there for further descendants)
- → Portuguese: delicado
- → Spanish: delicado

“delicatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“delicatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
delicatus 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)
delicatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- delicacies: cibus delicatus
- to live a luxurious and effeminate life: delicate ac molliter vivere