gaudens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of gaudeō.

Participle

gaudēns (genitive gaudentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. rejoicing
2. taking pleasure in, delighting, enjoying
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.189–190:

     Haec tum multiplicī populōs sermōne replēbat / gaudēns [...].

     Now [Rumor] was sating the peoples [of Africa] with many a tale, delighting [in it] [...].
     (Fama or Rumor spreads talk of Dido and Aeneas beyond Carthage.)

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	gaudēns			gaudentēs	gaudentia
genitive	gaudentis			gaudentium
dative	gaudentī			gaudentibus
accusative	gaudentem	gaudēns		gaudentēs gaudentīs	gaudentia
ablative	gaudente gaudentī1			gaudentibus
vocative	gaudēns			gaudentēs	gaudentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “gaudens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gaudens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gaudens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• gaudens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.