delice
English
Etymology
From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.
Noun
delice (plural delices)
- (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]
Derived terms
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دلیجه (delice),[1][2] from دلی (deli) or دلو (delu),[3] equivalent to deli (“crazy, mad, insane”) + -ce.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈli.d͡ʒe/
- Hyphenation: de‧li‧ce
Noun
delice (definite accusative deliceyi, plural deliceler)
- A wild plant of the Poaceae family with poisonous seeds; Lolium temulentum, darnel, false wheat.
- An olive tree that is not grafted.
- (colloquial) A hawk or a sparrow hawk.
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دلیجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 913
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دلیجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 580
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “deli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- delice in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “delice”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1139
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