delicious的词源

英文词源

delicious: delicious: [13] The underlying meaning of delicious is ‘tempting, luring one aside from the straight and narrow’. It comes via Old French delicious from late Latin dēliciōsus, a derivative of Latin dēlicia ‘delight’. This in turn was formed from dēlicere ‘entice away’, a compound verb made from the prefix dē- ‘away’ and lacere ‘lure, deceive’ (source also of English elicit and related to lace, lasso, and possibly latch).

Latin dēlectāre, a derivative of dēlicere denoting repeated action, produced Old French delit, source of English delight [13], and Italian dilettante, literally ‘lover’, borrowed by English in the 18th century in the positive sense ‘someone who takes delight in fine art’.
=> delight, dilettante, elicit, lace, lasso
delicious (adj.): c. 1300 (implied in deliciously), from Old French delicios (Modern French délicieux), from Late Latin deliciosus "delicious, delicate," from Latin delicia (plural deliciae) "a delight, allurement, charm," from delicere "to allure, entice," from de- "away" (see de-) + lacere "lure, deceive" (related to laqueus "noose, snare;" see lace). As a name of a type of apple, attested from 1903, first grown by Jesse Hiatt of Iowa, U.S.A. Colloquial shortening delish is attested from 1920.

de-, 向下，强调。-lic, 抓住，诱惑，词源同lace, elicit. 引申义抓住胃的，美味的。

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来源于拉丁语中由前缀de-(离开,分离)和动词lacere(引诱,欺骗)组成的复合动词delicere(引诱开)派生的delicia(使高兴),经后期拉丁语deliciosus和古法语delicious派生为英语delicious。

词根词缀： de-离开,分离 + lic引诱,欺骗 + -i- + -ous形容词词尾

同源词：delight, delicate