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deliciarum

deliciarum is a Latin form of deliciae, meaning “delight, pleasure; darling, sweetheart; luxuries”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 120: … is. — cum Chrysogono sunt. — ita credo; litteris eorum et urbanitate Chrysogonus ducitur ut inter suos omnium deliciarum atque omnium artium puerulos ex tot elegantissimis familiis lectos velit hos versari, homines paene operarios …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.5.a: Deliciarum vitium et mollities oculorum et corporis ab Arcesila philosopho cuidam obprobrata acerbe simul et festiviter.

All forms of deliciae (declension 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.