1. dēlector — Lewis & Short
dēlector, āri, v. dep.collat. form of preceding,
I to delight, charm (only in the foll. passages):
cum dominam suam delectaretur,Petr. 45, 7; 64, 2.
The corpus record — Latin
delector
delector · v. dep
to delight, charm
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
- Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
- Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
- Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
- Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k
- Tiberius 2 · 2.2/10k
- Satyricon 6 · 1.97/10k
- Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 2 · 1.76/10k
- De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
- Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
- Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
- Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. dēlector — Lewis & Short
dēlector, ōris, m.deligo,
I one who draws out, levies, recruits, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 3.
In the wild
- delectaretur Seneca, De Consolatione ad Helviam 11.10.10
- delectaris Martial, Epigrammata 10.45.5
- delectatus Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 49
- delectaretur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.67
- delectatus Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.57
- delectaris Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 3.8.5
6 of 79 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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