Posted in Sapiosexual delight – Wiktionary, the free dictionary July 25, 2025 The modern unetymological spelling (instead of expected delite) is influenced by light and other words ending in -ight, such as might, bright, etc. The -gh- may also be an attempt to represent the Latin -c-; compare obsolete indight for indict. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/delight