jocose

English

Etymology

From Latin iocōsus (“humorous”), from iocus (“jest, joke”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈkəʊs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈkoʊs/, /d͡ʒoʊˈkoʊs/
• Rhymes: (UK) -əʊs, (US) -oʊs

Adjective

jocose (comparative more jocose, superlative most jocose) (formal)

1. given to jesting; habitually jolly
   • 1659, John Gauden, chapter XXXI, in Ίερα Δακρυα [Hiera dakrya]. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England: […], London: Printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, book II (Searching the Causes and Occasions of the Church of England’s Decayes), page 251:

     Adde to this diſsipated and diſtracted ſtate of Miniſters, their private diſtreſſes and poverties, together with the publick neglect and indifferency of people toward them; who can wonder if they look pitifully one on another, which no jocoſe or juvenile drolings can relieve?

   • 1886, Henry S. Salt, “VII: On Certain Fallacies”, in A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 80:

     Jocose flesh-eaters take a malicious delight in pointing out and enumerating to Vegetarians the many animal substances now in common use, and in taunting them with inconsistency in using them.

   • 1941, Ogden Nash, “Look What You Did, Christopher!”, in The Face Is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 223:

     The American people, / With grins jocose, / Always survive the fatal dose.

2. playful; characterized by joking

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:witty

Derived terms

• jocosely
• jocoseness
• jocoserious
• jocosity

Related terms

• jocular
• jocund

Translations

given to jest

• Bulgarian: весел (bg) (vesel), игрив (bg) (igriv)
• Finnish: vekkuli (fi)
• Georgian: ხუმარა (ka) (xumara), მოხუმარი (moxumari), ლაღი (laɣi), მხიარული (mxiaruli)
• German: drollig (de), launig (de)
• Spanish: jocoso (es)

characterised by joking

• Bulgarian: шеговит (bg) (šegovit)
• Czech: žertovný, humorný
• Georgian: ხუმარა (ka) (xumara), მოხუმარი (moxumari), ლაღი (laɣi), მხიარული (mxiaruli)
• German: drollig (de), scherzend (de)
• Romanian: glumeţ (ro)
• Spanish: jocoso (es)

Latin

Adjective

jocōse

1. vocative masculine singular of jocōsus

References

• “jocose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• jocose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.