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delicias

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

Found 90 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.64: … ui hospitis relinquendi causam reperire non posset, alia sibi ratione viam munire ad stuprum coepit; Rubrium, delicias suas, in omnibus eius modi rebus adiutorem suum et conscium, parum laute deversari dicit; ad Philodamum deduc …

Martial, Epigrammata 1.14.1: Delicias, Caesar, lususque iocosque leonum

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.