English search results for: Delicious

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. anything sweet, pleasant or delicious
  2. nectar, the drink of the gods
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. delicious (taste) (OLD)
  2. enjoyable, delectable, delightful, agreeable
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. delicate
  2. delicious
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#4

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. (bears delicious fruit L+S)
  2. kind of Arabian palm
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: Near East
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)