delectatus

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

It can also be a form of delector, “delight, please, amuse, fascinate; charm, lure, entice”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.57: … minibus honestis de digitis anulos abstulisse? numquam dubitavit, quotienscumque alicuius aut gemma aut anulo delectatus est. incredibile dicam, sed ita clarum ut ipsum negaturum non arbitrer.

Petronius, Satyricon 65: … nis et unguento per frontem in oculos fluente praetorio loco se posuit con tinuoque vinum et caldam poposcit. Delectatus hac Trimalchio hilaritate et ipse capaciorem poposcit scyphum quaesivitque, quomodo acceptus esset.“Omnia” in …

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.