The corpus record — Latin

jocor

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Suasoriae 2 · 1.95/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k

Densest 12 of 57 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — Lewis & Short

jŏcor, ātus, 1,

I v. dep. n. and a. [jocus], to jest, joke (class.): tu hanc jocari credis? faciet, nisi caveo, Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 7: duplex jocandi genus, Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; cf.: voluit Fortuna jocari, Juv. 3, 40.—

II In partic., to say in jest: haec jocatus sum, Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 4: in aliquid permulta, Hor. S. 1, 5, 62: multum de aliqua re, Sen. Suas. 1, 6; Cat. 2, 6: obscaena, Ov. Tr. 2, 497; Quint. 5, 13, 46.—Act. collat. form jŏco, āre: quasi jocabo, Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 20 (al. jocabor).

In the wild

iocandum Cicero, De Oratore 2.290.p2
iocati Historia Augusta, Severus 14
iocantur Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.2.9
iocando Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 49.14
iocantes Martial, Epigrammata 10.101.3
iocati Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.10.2

6 of 104 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.