Delicatus
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The Latin delicatus (“giving pleasure, delightful, soft, luxurious, delicate, in Medieval Latin also fine, slender”) is an adjective for
- alluring, charming, delightful; voluptuous
- soft, tender, delicate
- effeminate, spoilt with indulgence
- fastidious, scrupulous
- overly-luxurious, spoiled
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Etymology
From Latin deliciae < delicere < de + lacere.
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