Delite

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. To give someone intense joy or satisfaction
2. To fill someone with great pleasure or delight
3. To bring extreme happiness or enjoyment to someone

Etymology: Before it named a feeling, the Latin root "delicere" meant to lure someone away. It combined "de-" with "lacere," to entice, and its frequentative form, "delectare," shifted from luring toward pleasing and then toward delighting. The lineage runs through Old French, where "deleitier" and the noun "delit" carried that sense of pleasure into medieval England. English adopted the word in the Middle Ages as "delit" or "delite," spellings that now read as archaic variants of the modern form. The "gh" in today's standard spelling came later, added by analogy with words such as "light" and "might," even though the sound it represents was never pronounced with that consonant.