Oxford Latin Dictionary
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laetus joyful
laetus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means joyful.
Definitions for laetus
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
happy, joyful
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
(of plants, crops, fields, etc.) Flourishing, luxuriant, lush. (b) (of ground, soil) rich, fertile. (c) (of animals) in good condition, sleek. (d) (of other things) abounding, teeming.
- 2
(of literary or oratorical style) Luxuriant, rich, florid; (also, of authors, etc.).
- 3
(of persons) Cheerful, glad, happy. (b) (of looks, feelings, actions, etc.) expressive of joy, glad, happy. (c) (of periods, objects, events, etc.) associated with or full of joy; ~ae sedes (poet) the Elysian fields.-
- 4
(w. abl., gen.; also w. inf.) Delighting or exulting (in).
- 5
(of affairs, etc.) Prosperous, successful.
Sentences with laetus
Latin to English
Gaius est laetus.Compare Gaius is happy.
Laeta est Flāvia quod Cornēlia iam in vīllā habitat.Compare Flavia is happy because Cornelia is now living in the country house.
Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro; non tamen irritum, quodcumque retro est, efficiet, neque diffinget infectumque reddet, quod fugies semel hora vixit."Compare He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Sire may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine; he will not undo aught that is left behind me, nor change or make as though it had not been aught that the hour, fast as it flies, has once brought."
Lucus ille laetus in medium pascua habeo, ubi omnis genus sacer dea pascor pecus sine ullus pastor.Compare That grove has in its centre fair pastures, where cattle of every sort, sacred to the goddess, were grazing without any keeper.
Laetus sum laudari me abs te, pater, a laudato viro.Compare I am glad it is you, Father, a man higly praised, who praises me.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 479.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 996.
- 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): 121.
Bibliography
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Delatte, Louis, 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.
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.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "laetus, laeta, laetum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/laetus-laeta-laetum.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 479.on page 479
