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The corpus record — Latin

jucundus

jucundus · adj

pleasant, agreeable, delightful, pleasing

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

Where it lives

  • Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
  • Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
  • De Senectute 8 · 9.68/10k
  • De Vita Beata 6 · 8.26/10k
  • Cum Populo Gratias Egit 2 · 7.57/10k
  • Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
  • Atticus 2 · 5.66/10k
  • Letters to and from Quintus 9 · 4.9/10k
  • Carmina 6 · 4.66/10k
  • de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 23 · 4.6/10k
  • Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
  • Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k

Densest 12 of 96 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jūcundus — Lewis & Short

jūcundus (jōcundus), a, um, adj.jocus,

I pleasant, agreeable, delightful, pleasing (syn.: gratus, blandus; class.): est mihi jucunda in malis et grata in dolore vestra erga me voluntas, Cic. Cat. 4, 1, 1: comes, id. ib. 4, 6, 11: id vero militibus fuit pergratum et jucundum, Caes. B. C. 1, 86: verba ad audiendum, Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 213: jucunda captat praemia, Hor. Epod. 2, 36: sine amore jocisque nil est jucundum, id. Ep. 1, 6, 66; id. S. 2, 6, 62: Crispi jucunda senectus (i. e. senex jucundus), Juv. 4, 81: aqua potui jucunda, Plin. 6, 32, 37, § 203: agri, Cic. Agr. 2, 16, 40.—Absol.: pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di, Juv. 10, 349.—Comp.: officia jucundiora, Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 1: bonum jucundius vita, Juv. 13, 180.—Sup.: jucundissimi ludi, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 78: conspectus vester est mihi multo jucundissimus, Cic. de Imp. Pomp 1, 1.—Adv.: jūcundē, agreeably, delight fully: vivere, Cic. Cael. 6, 13: cantare et psallere, Suet. Tit. 3: herba jucunde olet, Plin. 20, 17, 69, § 177.—Comp.: bibere jucundius, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97: vivere, id. Fin. 1, 21, 72; 1, 18, 57.—Sup.: vivere, Cic. Fin. 2, 22, 70: loqui, Val. Max. 7, 2, 8 ext.; 6, 2, 11 ext.

In the wild

6 of 416 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.