The corpus record — Latin

joculor

to jest, joke

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

jŏcŭlor — Lewis & Short

jŏcŭlor, ārijoculus,

I to jest, joke; only in part. pres.: incondita quaedam joculantes, Liv. 7, 10, 13.—Hence, adv.: jŏcŭlanter, jestingly, jokingly: compellare, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.

In the wild

ioculantes Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.7.10.13
ioculantes Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p10

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.