oblectamentum

From oblectō (“to entertain, delight, amuse”) +‎ -mentum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔb.ɫɛk.taːˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ob.lek.taˈmɛn.tum]

oblectāmentum n (genitive oblectāmentī); second declension

1. a source of delight, pleasure, amusement

   Synonym: (less common) oblectāmen

   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 16.55:

     Possum persequī permulta oblectāmenta rērum rūsticārum; sed haec ipsa, quae dīxī, sentiō fuisse longiōra.

     I could go on to list the very many delights of country life; but even these [few points] I have already made, I feel, have gone on for too long.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “oblectamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oblectamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “oblectamentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.