gaudimonium
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom gaudium (“joy, delight”) + -mōnium (“collective or obligation”, perhaps used intensively).
Noun
editgaudimōnium n (genitive gaudimōniī or gaudimōnī); second declension
- joy
- c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 61:
- Niceros delectatus affabilitate amici: "Omne me, inquit, lucrum transeat, nisi iam dudum gaudimonio dissilio, quod te talem video. Itaque hilaria mera sint, etsi timeo istos scolasticos ne me rideant. Viderint: narrabo tamen, quid enim mihi aufert, qui ridet? satius est rideri quam derideri."
- Niceros was delighted by his friend's amiability and said, “May I never turn another penny if I am not ready to burst with joy at seeing you in such a good humour. Well, it shall be pure fun then, though I am afraid your clever friends will laugh at me. Still, let them; I will tell my story; what harm does a man's laugh do me? Being laughed at is more satisfactory than being sneered at.”
- Niceros delectatus affabilitate amici: "Omne me, inquit, lucrum transeat, nisi iam dudum gaudimonio dissilio, quod te talem video. Itaque hilaria mera sint, etsi timeo istos scolasticos ne me rideant. Viderint: narrabo tamen, quid enim mihi aufert, qui ridet? satius est rideri quam derideri."
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gaudimōnium | gaudimōnia |
Genitive | gaudimōniī gaudimōnī1 |
gaudimōniōrum |
Dative | gaudimōniō | gaudimōniīs |
Accusative | gaudimōnium | gaudimōnia |
Ablative | gaudimōniō | gaudimōniīs |
Vocative | gaudimōnium | gaudimōnia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “gaudimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gaudimonium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gaudimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.