delight英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Joy; pleasure. countable,uncountable

— A fool hath no delight in understanding.
Something that gives great joy or pleasure. countable,uncountable

— Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight, […]

动词 v.

To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.

— Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
To have or take great pleasure. intransitive

— A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde, Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde; That, if I wiſt not to be controlde, Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,

词形变化

delights plural delights present,singular,third-person delighting participle,present delighted participle,past delighted past

词汇关系

近义词

delection

衍生词

afternoon delight Buddha's delight Cupid's delight delightful delightless delightly delightsome devil's delight duper's delight gardener's delight Heart's Delight idiot's delight lumps of delight queen's delight take delight in Turkish delight undelight whaler's delight duping delight delighter delight in delightingly undelighting

词源

词源 1

Attested from the 13th century, from Middle English delite, from Old French deleiter, deliter, from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight, please”), frequentative of dēlicere (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Doublet of delect. Related with delectation, delicate, delicious and dilettante. The modern unetymological spelling (instead of expected delite) is influenced by light and other words ending in -ight, such as might, bright, etc. The -gh- may also be an attempt to represent the Latin -c-; compare obsolete indight for indict.

词源 2

Attested from the 13th century, from Middle English delite, from Old French deleiter, deliter, from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight, please”), frequentative of dēlicere (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Doublet of delect. Related with delectation, delicate, delicious and dilettante. The modern unetymological spelling (instead of expected delite) is influenced by light and other words ending in -ight, such as might, bright, etc. The -gh- may also be an attempt to represent the Latin -c-; compare obsolete indight for indict.