delectus

English

Etymology

Latin , meaning "selection", from deligere, delectum (“to select”).

Noun

delectus (plural delectuses)

  1. (obsolete) An elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.
    1871-2, George Eliot, Middlemarch, book 37
    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.
    1872, Matthew Arnold, General Report for the Year 1872; in Reports on Elementary Schools 1852-1882, edited by Sir Francis Sanford
    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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for delectus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dēligō (“[I] pick off; select”).

Participle

dēlēctus (feminine dēlēcta, neuter dēlēctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. picked off, having been picked off, plucked off, having been plucked off; culled, having been culled
  2. chosen, having been chosen, selected, having been selected

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative dēlēctus dēlēcta dēlēctum dēlēctī dēlēctae dēlēcta
Genitive dēlēctī dēlēctae dēlēctī dēlēctōrum dēlēctārum dēlēctōrum
Dative dēlēctō dēlēctō dēlēctīs
Accusative dēlēctum dēlēctam dēlēctum dēlēctōs dēlēctās dēlēcta
Ablative dēlēctō dēlēctā dēlēctō dēlēctīs
Vocative dēlēcte dēlēcta dēlēctum dēlēctī dēlēctae dēlēcta

Noun

dēlēctus m (genitive dēlēctūs); fourth declension

  1. selection, choice, distinction
  2. levy, recruiting

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dēlēctus dēlēctūs
Genitive dēlēctūs dēlēctuum
Dative dēlēctuī dēlēctibus
Accusative dēlēctum dēlēctūs
Ablative dēlēctū dēlēctibus
Vocative dēlēctus dēlēctūs

References
  • delectus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • delectus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • delectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • delectus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • delectus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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