delight
要点大喜び、楽しみ、大いに楽しませる、大喜びする
意味
- 大喜び,歓喜
- 楽しみ,うれしいこと
- …を大いに楽しませる,大喜びさせる,うれしがらせる
- 大喜びする,うれしがる,楽しむ
例文
To her delight, she got through the examination.
うれしいことに彼女は試験にパスした。
It offers a mouth-watering selection of delights.
よだれの出そうなものがよりどり見どりでいっぱいありますよ。
I delight in going to the apple orchard each fall.
私は、毎秋りんご園へ行くのが楽しみだ。
語源
ラテン語delectare「喜ばせる」から。-gh-の綴りはlight（光）に引きずられて後から入ったもので、lightとは無関係。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Attested from the 13th century, from Middle English delite, from Old French deleiter, deliter, from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight, please”), frequentative of dēlicere (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Doublet of delect. Related with delectation, delicate, delicious and dilettante. The modern unetymological spelling (instead of expected delite) is influenced by light and other words ending in -ight, such as might, bright, etc. The -gh- may also be an attempt to represent the Latin -c-; compare obsolete indight for indict.
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delicate delicately delicious delighted delightful delinquency