iocus

Latin

Alternative forms

• jocus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak”). Compare Old High German jehan, Welsh iaith, Breton yezh.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯o.kus/, [ˈi̯ɔkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjo.kus/, [ˈjɔːkus]

• Audio (Classical):

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Noun

iocus m (genitive iocī); second declension

1. a joke, jest
2. a form of amusement
3. pastime, sport

   Synonym: lūdus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iocus	iocī
Genitive	iocī	iocōrum
Dative	iocō	iocīs
Accusative	iocum	iocōs
Ablative	iocō	iocīs
Vocative	ioce	iocī

Derived terms

• iocor
• ioculus
• iocāliter
• iocōsus

 

Related terms

• ioculanter
• ioculor
• ioculāria
• ioculāris
• ioculāriter
• ioculārius
• ioculātiō
• ioculātor
• ioculātōrius
• iocābundus
• iocātiō
• iocōsē

 

Descendants

• Aragonese: chuego
• Aromanian: gioc
• Asturian: xuegu
• Catalan: joc
• English: joke
• French: jeu
• Friulian: zûc, ğûc
• Galician: xogo

• German: Jux
• Italian: gioco, giuoco
• Ladin: jech
• Ligurian: zêugo
• Occitan : jòc
• Portuguese: jogo
• Romanian: joc

• Romansch: gieu, giug
• Sardinian: giogu, ciogu, zocu
• Sicilian: jocu
• Spanish: juego
• Venetian: xogo, xugo, zugo
• Walloon: djeu
• Welsh: jôc

References

• iocus 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)
• jocus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I said it in jest: haec iocatus sum, per iocum dixi
    
  • (ambiguous) joking apart: extra iocum, remoto ioco (Fam. 7. 11. 3)
    
  • (ambiguous) to make a joke: ioco uti (Off. 1. 29. 103)
    
  • (ambiguous) joking apart: extra iocum, remoto ioco (Fam. 7. 11. 3)
    
• “iocus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers