jocose
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin iocōsus (“humorous”), from iocus (“jest, joke”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /d͡ʒəˈkəʊs/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /d͡ʒəˈkoʊs/, /d͡ʒoʊˈkoʊs/
- Rhymes: (UK) -əʊs, (US) -oʊs
Adjective edit
jocose (comparative more jocose, superlative most jocose) (formal)
- given to jesting; habitually jolly
- 1659, John Gauden, chapter XXXI, in Ίερα Δακρυα [Hiera dakrya]. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England: […], London: Printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, book II (Searching the Causes and Occasions of the Church of England’s Decayes), page 251:
- Adde to this diſsipated and diſtracted ſtate of Miniſters, their private diſtreſſes and poverties, together with the publick neglect and indifferency of people toward them; who can wonder if they look pitifully one on another, which no jocoſe or juvenile drolings can relieve?
- 1886, Henry S. Salt, “VII: On Certain Fallacies”, in A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 80:
- Jocose flesh-eaters take a malicious delight in pointing out and enumerating to Vegetarians the many animal substances now in common use, and in taunting them with inconsistency in using them.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, “Look What You Did, Christopher!”, in The Face Is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 223:
- The American people, / With grins jocose, / Always survive the fatal dose.
- playful; characterized by joking
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:witty
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
given to jest
Latin edit
Adjective edit
jocōse
References edit
- “jocose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- jocose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.