dainty

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• rhymes with -eɪnti
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• CMU ARPABET: D EY1 N T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English deynte (as noun), from Old French deintié, from Latin dignitātem. Doublet of dignity.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: не́жен (néžen) — delicately small and pretty
• Bulgarian: изи́скан (izískan) — delicately small and pretty
• Catalan: delicat — delicately small and pretty
• Catalan: bufó — delicately small and pretty
• Chinese Mandarin: 纖巧 /纤巧 (xiānqiǎo) — delicately small and pretty
• Czech: roztomilý — delicately small and pretty
• Danish: laekkeri — delicately small and pretty
• Dutch: delicaat — delicately small and pretty
• Esperanto: malkruda — delicately small and pretty
• Finnish: siro — delicately small and pretty
• French: délicat — delicately small and pretty
• French: mignon — delicately small and pretty
• German: fein — delicately small and pretty
• German: delikat — delicately small and pretty
• German: zart — delicately small and pretty
• German: zierlich — delicately small and pretty
• German: niedlich — delicately small and pretty
• Ancient Greek: ἁβρός (habrós) — delicately small and pretty
• Ancient Greek: τρυφερός (trupherós) — delicately small and pretty
• Latin: dēlicātus — delicately small and pretty
• Māori: tōitiiti — delicately small and pretty
• Māori: marore — delicately small and pretty
• Polish: arcydelikatny — delicately small and pretty
• Portuguese: delicada — delicately small and pretty
• Portuguese: delicado — delicately small and pretty
• Romanian: delicat — delicately small and pretty
• Russian: изя́щный (izjáščnyj) — delicately small and pretty
• Russian: изы́сканный (izýskannyj) — delicately small and pretty
• Russian: утончённый (utončónnyj) — delicately small and pretty
• Russian: элега́нтный (elegántnyj) — delicately small and pretty
• Russian: не́жный (néžnyj) — delicately small and pretty
• Russian: ла́комый (lákomyj) — delicately small and pretty
• Russian: деликатный (delikátnyj) — delicately small and pretty
• Spanish: delicado — delicately small and pretty
• Swedish: nätt — delicately small and pretty
• Welsh: amheuthun — delicately small and pretty
• Bulgarian: изящен (izjašten) — small and pretty
• Bulgarian: сладък (sladǎk) — small and pretty
• German: putzig — small and pretty
• German: niedlich — small and pretty
• Javanese: ayu — small and pretty
• Bulgarian: приди́рчив (pridírčiv) — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Cornish: denti — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Czech: vybíravý — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Czech: mlsný — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Finnish: nirso — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Finnish: valikoiva — fastidious and fussy when eating
• German: anspruchsvoll — fastidious and fussy when eating
• German: mäkelig — fastidious and fussy when eating
• German: geziert — fastidious and fussy when eating
• German: pingelig — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Irish: beadaí — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Russian: привере́дливый (priverédlivyj) — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Russian: приди́рчивый (pridírčivyj) — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Serbo-Croatian: izbirljiv — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Spanish: mañoso — fastidious and fussy when eating
• Bulgarian: деликатес (delikates) — a delicacy
• Bulgarian: лакомство (lakomstvo) — a delicacy
• Czech: lahůdka — a delicacy
• Czech: pamlsek — a delicacy
• German: Delikatesse — a delicacy
• Kyrgyz: чүйгүн (cüygün) — a delicacy
• Latin: scītāmentum — a delicacy
• Latin: mattea — a delicacy
• Māori: horotai — a delicacy
• Middle English: deynte — a delicacy
• Plautdietsch: Lakjabeskje — a delicacy
• Romanian: delicatețe — a delicacy
• Romanian: finețe — a delicacy
• Russian: деликате́с (delikatɛ́s) — a delicacy
• Russian: ла́комство (lákomstvo) — a delicacy
• Swedish: läckerbit — a delicacy
• Swedish: läckerhet — a delicacy
• Swedish: godbit — a delicacy
• Swedish: delikatess — a delicacy