Latin edit

Etymology edit

From iocus (jest, joke) +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

iocōsus (feminine iocōsa, neuter iocōsum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. funny, full of jesting, jocose, humorous, jokey, light-hearted

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative iocōsus iocōsa iocōsum iocōsī iocōsae iocōsa
Genitive iocōsī iocōsae iocōsī iocōsōrum iocōsārum iocōsōrum
Dative iocōsō iocōsō iocōsīs
Accusative iocōsum iocōsam iocōsum iocōsōs iocōsās iocōsa
Ablative iocōsō iocōsā iocōsō iocōsīs
Vocative iocōse iocōsa iocōsum iocōsī iocōsae iocōsa

Descendants edit

  • English: jocose
  • Italian: giocoso
  • Portuguese: jocoso
  • Sicilian: jucusu
  • Spanish: jocoso

References edit

  • jocosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • iocosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • iocosus 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)