delecta

delecta is a Latin form of delecto, meaning “delight, please”.

It can also be a form of deligo, “choose, select; (delectus) chosen; levy”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.21.2: Statuunt, ut X milia hominum delecta ex omnibus copiis in oppidum mittantur,

All forms of delecto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.