delectusEtymologyFrom Latin delectus (“selection”), from deligo (“to select”).delectus means an elementary reader (collection of passages) for learners of a language. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounAn elementary reader (collection of passages) for learners of a language“If she spoke with any keenness of interest to Mr. Casaubon, he heard her with an air of patience as if she had given a quotation from the Delectus familiar to him from his tender years, and sometimes mentioned curtly what ancient sects or personages had held similar ideas, as if there were too much of that sort in stock already; at other times he would inform her that she was mistaken, and reasser”