Delighteth

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To evoke a feeling of immense joy and happiness in someone To induce a sense of great pleasure and satisfaction in another individual To generate a state of overwhelming delight and enjoyment for a person
2. To cause someone to feel intense happiness or joy
3. To bring about a strong sense of enjoyment and pleasure in a person

Etymology: "Delighteth" is simply the archaic third-person singular form of "delight," with the old ending "-eth" attached to the verb stem. The ending itself has a long pedigree: it descends from Old English "-aþ," which in turn came from Proto-Germanic "*-ōþi," and it was the standard way of marking "he, she, or it" performs an action in Middle and early Modern English. Later writers, including the translators of the King James Bible, used "-eth" widely, which is why the form still feels solemn or scriptural to modern readers. The verb "delight" itself is the more interesting half of the pair. It came into English in Middle English as a borrowing from Old French "delit," itself from Latin "delectare," meaning "to entice or please." The "-eth" ending was never a separate word; it was simply a grammatical marker that English speakers kept attaching to verbs until it gradually gave way to the "-s" ending we use now.