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delectare
Latin · ancient
"to allure, delight, please"
a frequentative verb meaning to allure or delight
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dilettare
Italian · medieval
"to delight"
kept the sense of delighting
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dilettante
Italian · 1600s
"a lover of an art, pursued for pleasure"
the present participle named a devoted lover of music or painting
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dilettante
English · 1733
"an amateur devotee of an art or field"
borrowed for an admirer and amateur cultivator of the arts
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