Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 755.gaudium on page 755
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gaudium joy
gaudium is a Latin Noun that primarily means joy.
Definitions for gaudium
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
joy, delight
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Joy, delight, gladness. (b) a source or cause of joy. (c) an expression or manifestation of joy. (d) (personified).
- 2
Physical or sensual delight.
- 3
(concr., applied to persons or things) Joy, delight.
Sentences with gaudium
Latin to English
Ei mihi, difficile est imitari gaudia falsa, difficile est tristi fingere mente iocum.Compare Ah me, it is hard to act joyful when you are unhappy, hard to pretend gaiety when the heart is sad.
Da modo lucra mihi, da facto gaudia lucro; et fac ut emptori verba dedisse iuvet.Compare Only grant me profits, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!
Omnia Graece... hoc sermone pavent, hoc iram gaudia curas, hoc cuncta effundunt animi secreta: qui ultra? Concumbunt Graece.Compare Nowadays everything's in Greek... in that language they express their fears, their anger, joy, worries, in it they pour out their heart's secrets: why, they even make Greek love!
Armat spina rosas, mella tegunt apes. crescunt difficili gaudia iurgo accenditque magis, quae refugit, Venus. quod flenti tuleris, plus sapit osculum. [Fescennina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti, IV,10]Compare Thorns arm the rose and bees find a defense for their honey. The refusals of coyness do but increase the joy; the desire for that which flies us is the more inflamed; sweeter is the kiss snatched through tears.
At Romae ruere in servitium consules, patres, eques: quanto quis illustrior, tanto magis falsi ac festinantes, vultuque composito, ne laeti excessus principis, neu tristiores primordio, lacrimas, gaudium, questus adulationem miscebant.Compare Meanwhile at Rome people plunged into slavery - consuls, senators, knights. The higher a man's rank, the more eager his hypocrisy, and his looks the more carefully studied, so as neither to betray joy at the decease of one emperor nor sorrow at the rise of another, while he mingled delight and lamentations with his flattery.
Declension table for gaudium
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | gaudium | gaudia |
| Gen. | gaudiī | gaudiōrum |
| Dat. | gaudiō | gaudiīs |
| Acc. | gaudium | gaudia |
| Abl. | gaudiō | gaudiīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 477.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 755.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 124.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "gaudium, gaudiī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 27, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/gaudium-gaudii.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 477.on page 477
