See delicia in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dēliciā",
"links": [
[
"dēliciā",
"delicia#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dēliciīs",
"links": [
[
"dēliciīs",
"deliciis#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dēlicia",
"links": [
[
"dēlicia",
"delicia#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "dēliciae",
"links": [
[
"dēliciae",
"deliciae#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dēlicia<1>"
},
"expansion": "dēlicia f (genitive dēliciae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dēlicia<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "delight",
"word": "dēliciae"
}
],
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Here was buried Iucunda, his darling",
"ref": "c. early 1st-century BCE?, CIL 9.01721",
"text": "Hic | Iucunda sepulta | est delicia eius",
"translation": "Here was buried Iucunda, his darling",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "And Critias is my darling",
"ref": "c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Carmina 3.1",
"text": "Et Critiās mea dēlicia est",
"translation": "And Critias is my darling",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of dēliciae (“delight”)"
],
"links": [
[
"dēliciae",
"deliciae#Latin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(very rare) alternative form of dēliciae (“delight”)"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"declension-1",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[deːˈlɪ.ki.a]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[deˈliː.t͡ʃi.a]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "delicia"
}
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