delicia.
||favorite/pet/darling/beloved; man w/fine taste/gourmet; voluptuary; pleasure/delight/fun (usu. pl.), activity affording enjoyment, luxuries; toys; ornaments/decorations; erotic verse; charms; elegant/affected manner/mannerism; |luxurious habits/selfindulgence; airs, manners of superiority; caprices/whims;
Meaning & usage
corner beam supporting a section of an outward-sloping roof
Where this word comes from
Uncertain whether from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”), as in liqueō, or Proto-Italic *lakiō or *lakʷiō (“I draw, pull”), so dē- + laciō ("to draw away, drain"), of which the base verb is a hapax and possibly a nonce word. The latter root has plenty internal, but no certain external cognates; even so, De Vaan 2008 prefers this on semantic grounds, and k over kʷ due to its absence in the many cognates - but compare dēliquō ~ dēlicō (“I clear off, strain”) from leikʷ-. Cognate to Latin sublica (“wooden stake or pile”), colliciae (“gutter”), ēlix (“furrow in a com field for draining off water”), ēliciō (“to coax, draw forth”), illecebra (“enticement”), dēliciae (“delight”). Connection with laqueus (“loop, rope snare”) uncertain.
alternative form of dēliciae (“delight”)
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