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delicium.

darling, person one is fond of; pet (animal); delight, source/thing of joy;

8 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[deːˈlɪ.ki.ũː]Classical-Latin[deˈliː.t͡ʃi.um]
  1. delight, pleasure

    declension-2
  2. darling, pet

    declension-2
  3. a prepubescent or adolescent boy who served as a sex slave, chosen for his supposed beauty

    declension-2 · figuratively
Where this word comes from

From dēlicere (“to entice, to snare; to delight”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from dē- + lacere (“to entice, to snare”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, to pull”), with no known cognates in any other Indo-European languages.

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