Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

delectus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: delec-tus
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An elementary reader (collection of passages) for learners of a language

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"If she spoke with any keenness of interest to Mr. Casaubon, he heard her with an air of patience as if she had given a quotation from the Delectus familiar to him from his tender years, and sometimes mentioned curtly what ancient sects or personages had held similar ideas, as if there were too much of that sort in stock already; at other times he would inform her that she was mistaken, and reassert what her remark had questioned."
"I am convinced that for [t]his purpose the best way would be to disregard classical Latin entirely, to use neither Cornelius Nepos, nor Eutropius, nor Cæsar, nor any delectus from them, but to use the Latin Bible, the Vulgate."

Etymology

From Latin delectus (“selection”), from deligo (“to select”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: delectus

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

delectuses (plural)

Questions

What does delectus mean?: An elementary reader (collection of passages) for learners of a language
Where does delectus come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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