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dēlĭcus

weaned

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What it meant

1. delicus — de Vaan

delicus 'weaned' [adj. o/a] (Varro, Rust. 2.4.16: cum porci depulsi sunt a mamma, a guibusdam delii appellantur neque iam lactantes dicuntur [mss.: delitU delicti^ Cato, Agr. 2.7: boves vetulos, armenta delicula, oves deliculas, lanamy pellem, ... vendat.) Derivatives: delicuus 'lacking, missing' (P1.+), deliculus 'having a small defect* (Cato). Several explanations have been put forward, but none is obviously … — [de Vaan, s.v. delicus, p. 179]

2. dēlĭcus — Lewis & Short

dēlĭcus, a, um, adj.delinquo,

I put away from the breast, weaned: porci, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 16; cf. delicum, a)pogalaktisqe/n, Gloss. Vet.

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