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laetificus

laetificus · adj

making glad, gladdening, glad, joyful, joyous

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

laetĭfĭcus — Lewis & Short

laetĭfĭcus, a, um, adj.laetus-facio,

I making glad, gladdening, glad, joyful, joyous (poet.): fetus, Lucr. 1, 193; cf. vites, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69 (Trag. v. 193 Vahl.): gau (i. e. gaudium), id. ap. Aus. Technop. 144 (Ann. v. 451 Vahl.): tumultus, Stat. Th. 8, 261: plausus, id. ib. 12, 521. —In neutr. plur. as subst.: laetĭfĭca, ōrum, joyful news: laetifica referre alicui, Sen. Troad. 597.

In the wild

laetificae Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.69
laetificum Ausonius, Technopaegnion 14.3
laetificae Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes praef.p32
laetificos Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.193
laetifici Statius, Thebais 12.521
laetificum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.31

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Where it came from

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