Meaning

noun a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction

noun something or someone that provides a source of happiness

verb give pleasure to or be pleasing to

originAttested 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…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0