iocundus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier iūcundus, with the vowel altered on the basis of iocus[1] — unstressed short ŏ and long ō came to be pronounced identically by the Late Latin (or Proto-Romance) period.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /i̯oːˈkun.dus/, [i̯oːˈkʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /joˈkun.dus/, [joˈkun̪d̪us]
More often attested as iōcundus, the alternative iŏcundus is found in the poet Avianus (dactylic pentameter): Grātĭă reddātur | undĕ iŏcundă vĕnit.[2]
Adjective
[edit]iōcundus (feminine iōcunda, neuter iōcundum, adverb iōcundē); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | iōcundus | iōcunda | iōcundum | iōcundī | iōcundae | iōcunda | |
| genitive | iōcundī | iōcundae | iōcundī | iōcundōrum | iōcundārum | iōcundōrum | |
| dative | iōcundō | iōcundae | iōcundō | iōcundīs | |||
| accusative | iōcundum | iōcundam | iōcundum | iōcundōs | iōcundās | iōcunda | |
| ablative | iōcundō | iōcundā | iōcundō | iōcundīs | |||
| vocative | iōcunde | iōcunda | iōcundum | iōcundī | iōcundae | iōcunda | |
References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “ayudar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 428
- ^ Università degli Studi di Udine, Università ca' Foscari Venezia (2021 February 17) Pedecerto[1], Università degli Studi di Udine, retrieved 2021-03-18
- “iocundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press