The corpus record — Latin

jocularis

jocularis · adj

facetious, jocular, laughable, droll

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Where it lives

De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

jŏcŭlāris — Lewis & Short

jŏcŭlāris, e, adj.joculus,

I facetious, jocular, laughable, droll (class.): audacia, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 84: joculare istuc quidem, Cic. Leg. 1, 20: licentia, id. Fat. 8.—Subst.: jŏcŭlārĭa, ium, n. plur., jests, jokes: ut qui jocularia ridens Percurram, Hor. S. 1, 1, 23: fundere, Liv. 7, 2.—Adv.: jŏcŭlā-rĭter, jocosely, in a jocular or comical manner: irridere, Ps.-Ascon. ap. Cic. Div. in Caecin. 11, 33: obicere aliquid alicui, Plin. 22, 22, 38, § 80: canere carmina, Suet. Caes. 49.

In the wild

ioculariter Historia Augusta, De vita Hadriani 12
ioculariter Ausonius, Epistularum 15
ioculariter Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p8
ioculariter Suetonius, Divus Julius 49.4
Iocularium Terence, Andria 4.4
ioculariter Suetonius, Divus Augustus 75.1

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.