delectare

delectare is a Latin form of delecto, meaning “delight, please”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.4: … non modo istum hominem ingeniosum et intellegentem, verum etiam quemvis nostrum, quos iste idiotas appellat, delectare possent, unum Cupidinis marmoreum Praxiteli; nimirum didici etiam, dum in istum inquiro, artificum nomina. id …

Plautus, Poenulus 1.1.192: meos délectare munditiis meretriciis.

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.