Jovial

See also: jovial

English

Etymology

See jovial.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.vɪ.əl/

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• Hyphenation: Jov‧i‧al

Adjective

Jovial (not comparable)

1. (astronomy, obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
2. (Roman mythology, obsolete) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus), the god of the sky and thunder and the king of the gods; Jovian.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 390, column 1:

     I know the ſhape of's Legge: this is his Hand: / His Foote Mercuriall: his martiall Thigh / The brawnes of Hercules: but his Iouiall face— / Murther in heaven?

   • 2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     It was pointed out in chapter 3 that [C. S.] Lewis liked to regard Jupiter as his personal presiding deity, but Mercury would have been almost as apt a choice, for Lewis had been extraordinarily favoured by that Intelligence whom, in ‘The Planets,’ he calls the ‘Lord of language’: both as a speaker and as a writer Lewis was uncommonly fluent. However, despite these talents, despite the fact that he saw Mercurial as well as Jovial strains in his paternity, and despite his opinion that Mercury shared with Jupiter a special need of rehabilitation, Lewis claimed no special relationship with the planet of the second sphere. In fact, he confesses that the Mercurial essence is almost beyond his grasp: […]

Noun

Jovial (plural Jovials)

1. (chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Jupiter; a Jovian.

Translations

inhabitant of the planet Jupiter — see Jovian