# delicia
## Latin
### Etymology

Uncertain whether from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”), as in liqueō, or Proto-Italic *lakiō or *lakʷiō (“I draw, pull”), so dē- +‎ laciō ("to draw away, drain"), of which the base verb is a hapax and possibly a nonce word. The latter root has plenty internal, but no certain external cognates; even so, De Vaan 2008 prefers this on semantic grounds, and k over kʷ due to its absence in the many cognates - but compare dēliquō ~ dēlicō (“I clear off, strain”) from leikʷ-.
Cognate to Latin sublica (“wooden stake or pile”), colliciae (“gutter”), ēlix (“furrow in a com field for draining off water”), ēliciō (“I coax, draw forth”), illecebra (“enticement”), dēliciae (“delight”). Connection with laqueus (“loop, rope snare”) uncertain.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /deːˈli.ki.a/, [d̪eːˈlʲɪkiä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /deˈli.t͡ʃi.a/, [d̪eˈliːt͡ʃiä]

### Noun

dēlicia f (genitive dēliciae); first declension
* corner beam supporting a section of an outward-sloping roof
** c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.3.2:Displuviāta autem sunt, in quibus dēliciae arcam sustinentēs stīllicidia reiciuntDispluviate courtyards are those in which the rafters which support the frame of the opening carry the gutters down

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* dēliciāris
* dēliciātus

### Noun

dēlicia f (genitive dēliciae); first declension
* (very rare) Alternative form of dēliciae (“delight”)
** c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Carmina 3.1:Et Critiās mea dēlicia estAnd Critias is my darling

### References

* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “laciō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321

### Further reading

* “delicia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "delicia", 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)
* delicia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to wanton in the pleasures of sense: deliciis diffluere to be some one's favourite: in amore et deliciis esse alicui (active in deliciis habere aliquem)

## Portuguese
### Verb

delicia
* inflection of deliciar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēliciae.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /deˈliθja/ [d̪eˈli.θja]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /deˈlisja/ [d̪eˈli.sja]
* Rhymes: -iθja
* Rhymes: -isja
* Syllabification: de‧li‧cia

### Noun

delicia f (plural delicias)
* delight
* pleasure
    Synonym: placer

#### Derived terms

* arroz tres delicias
* delicia turca

#### Related terms

* delicioso

### Further reading

* “delicia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10