The corpus record — Latin

jocosus

jocosus · adj

full of jesting, jocose, humorous, droll, facetious

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Carmina 6 · 4.51/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.11/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Tristia 3 · 1.32/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jŏcōsus — Lewis & Short

jŏcōsus, a, um, adj.jocus,

I full of jesting, jocose, humorous, droll, facetious (class.).

A Of persons: homo humanus et jocosus, Varr. R. R. 2, 5: Maecenas, Hor. Epod. 3, 20: Musa, Ov. Tr. 2, 354.—

B Of inanim. and abstr. things: res, Cic. Off. 1, 37: lis, Ov. M. 3, 332: verba, id. F. 6, 692: furtum, Hor. C. 1, 10, 7: Nilus, the sportive Nile, with reference to the merry lives of the Egyptians, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 80.—Adv.: jŏ-cōsē, jestingly, jocosely: eumque lusi jocose satis, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 2.—Comp.: dicere aliquid jocosius, Cic. Fam. 9, 24, 4; Hor. S. 1, 4, 104.

In the wild

iocosa Horace, Carmina 1.12
iocoso Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.10.11
iocosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.10.p14
iocosam Catullus, Carmina lyrics.56.1
iocosa Catullus, Carmina lyrics.8.6
iocosae Ovid, Remedia Amoris 387

6 of 47 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.