The story
- Medieval Latin · derived fromdelectare“to delight”
- Old French · derived fromdelectable
- Middle French · derived fromdélectable
- Middle English · inherited fromdelectable
- English todaydelectable
From Middle English delectable, from Middle French délectable, from Old French delectable, from Medieval Latin delectare (“to delight”). By surface analysis, delect + -able. Piecewise doublet of delightable.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.