gaudium
Latin
Alternative forms
- gau (pre-Classical, poetic)
- gaudius (post-classical)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡau̯.di.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡaːu̯.d̪i.um]
Noun
gaudium n (genitive gaudiī or gaudī); second declension
- joy, delight
- Synonyms: dēlicium, dēlectātiō, voluptās, laetitia, frūctus, alacritās
- Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, dēsīderium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gaudium | gaudia |
| genitive | gaudiī gaudī1 |
gaudiōrum |
| dative | gaudiō | gaudiīs |
| accusative | gaudium | gaudia |
| ablative | gaudiō | gaudiīs |
| vocative | gaudium | gaudia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: gaju (Nuorese)
- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: goju
- Italian: godio (Tuscan)
- Neapolitan: gautšə (Cerignola)
- Old Sicilian: gauju
- Sicilian: gàuju (Calabria), javiu (Eastern Sicily)
- Gallo-Italic:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Bourguignon: zouaie
- Champenois: joë
- Franc-Comtois: djôe
- Franco-Provençal: dzeuya, jouè, joei
- Lorrain: žūy, žōy, djôye, džọ̄y, djoûe
- Norman: joué (St. Saire), jouaie (Jersey), goée (Les Andelys)
- Old French: joi, joie (see there for further descendants)
- Old Picard: goie
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: jeu (Poitou), jouée (Saintonge)
- Walloon: djôye
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
- Learned borrowings:
References
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “gozo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 185
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gaudium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 80
Further reading
- “gaudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gaudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gaudium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to weep for joy: gaudio lacrimare
- to give pleasure to some one: afficere aliquem gaudio, laetitia
- to be filled with delight: gaudio perfundi
- to add the crowning point to a person's joy: cumulum gaudii alicui afferre (vid. sect. V. 6) (Fam. 16. 21. 1)
- to utter cries of joy: gaudio, laetitia exsultare
- to be beside oneself with joy: gaudio, laetitia efferri
- to almost lose one's reason from excess of joy: nimio gaudio paene desipere
- to weep for joy: gaudio lacrimare