dainty (adj.) Copy link Outline I. As quality of personsII. Of things; esp. food1. dēlĭcātus2. lautus3. exquīsītus (rare, recherché) • dainty (adj.): I. As quality of persons: fastīdiōsus, dēlĭcātus, ēlĕgans: v. fastidious, nice. II. Of things; esp. food: 1. dēlĭcātus: v. delicate. 2. lautus: v. fine, sumptuous. 3. exquīsītus (rare, recherché): d. viands, ex. epulae, Plin.: v. choice. See also foll. art.
dainty (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. cŭpēdia, orum and cupediae, arum2. săpōres (i. e. choice flavours • dainty (subs.): more usu. in pl.: 1. cŭpēdia, orum and cupediae, arum: I care not for d.s, nil moror cupedia, Pl.: more fully, cupediae ciborum, Gell. 2. săpōres (i. e. choice flavours: not so used in sing.): Plin. Phr.: the sturgeon was regarded as a great d., nobilissimus habitus acipenser, Plin.: mullets are regarded as a great d., gratia maxima est mullis, id.: to search the world over for d.s, vescendi causa terra marique omnia exquirere, Sall.
DAINTY Copy link • DAINTY 1. adj. Fond of dainties, *cuppediorum studiosus (after Suet., Caes. 46): fastidii delicati. I am not at all dainty, nihil moror cuppedia: to be dainty, ligurrire (Ter., Eun., 5, 4, 14). Possessing exquisite taste, nitidus; elegans. Fastidious, fastidiosus. 2. s. cibus delicatus; in the plur., cuppedia, or cuppediae, cibi delicatiores; res ad epulandum exquisitissimae; bonae res (Nep., Ages., 8, 5, τὰ ἀγαθά); gulae irritamenta (inasmuch as they tickle the palate, or make the mouth water). Such expressions as escae molliculae, scitamenta, belong to comedy, and lautitiae betokens a magnificent style of living): to live on the choicest dainties, unum quidque, quod est bellissimum, edere (after Ter., Ad., 4, 2, 51): this bird is a dainty seldom to be met with, haec ales nunc inter primas expetitur: this, too, is one of Gunter’s dainties, est hoc quoque inter opera ganeae: don’t talk to me of dainties, nihil moror cuppedia.