ioco

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯o.koː/, [ˈi̯ɔkoː]

Verb

iocō (present infinitive iocāre, perfect active iocāvī, supine iocātum); first conjugation

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of iocor (in use as early as Plautus)

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: gioc, giucari
  • Romanian: juca, jucare
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: ghjucà
  • Italian: giocare
    • → Interlingua: jocar
    • →? Sardinian: giogae, giogai, giogare, zogare
  • Neapolitan: jucà
  • Sicilian: jucari, giucari
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: zuiâ, ğujâ
  • Romansch: giugar, giuier, giuver, giovar, giujear
  • Venetan: xugar, zugar, xogar, zogar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: joyer
  • Old French: joer
    • French: jouer
    • Norman: jouer
    • Picard: jouer
    • Walloon: djouwer
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: jugar
  • Occitan: jogar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: chugar
  • Asturian: xugar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: jogar
    • Galician: xogar, xugar, jogar (reintegrationist)
    • Portuguese: jogar
  • Old Spanish: jugar
    • Ladino: jugar, djugar
    • Spanish: jugar
      • Papiamentu: hunga
      • → Cebuano: sugal
      • → Bikol Central: sugal
      • → Tagalog: sugal
  • → Basque: jokatu (via the past participle?)

Noun

(deprecated template usage) iocō

1. dative/ablative singular of iocus

References

• “joco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• joco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• jocare 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)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be now jesting, now in earnest: ioca et seria agere
    
  • (ambiguous) to make a joke: ioco uti (Off. 1. 29. 103)
    
  • (ambiguous) joking apart: extra iocum, remoto ioco (Fam. 7. 11. 3)