Etymology

delightous

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Today it means: delightful Full definition →

Middle English delitous ← Old French delitos
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromdelitos
  2. Middle English · inherited fromdelitous
  3. English todaydelightous

From Middle English delitous, from Old French delitos.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.