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Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
iocō (present infinitive iocāre, perfect active iocāvī, supine iocātum); first conjugation
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of iocor (in use as early as Plautus)[1]
Noun
iocō
- dative/ablative singular of iocus
References
- “joco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- joco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- jocare in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be now jesting, now in earnest: ioca et seria agere
- (ambiguous) to make a joke: ioco uti (Off. 1. 29. 103)
- (ambiguous) joking apart: extra iocum, remoto ioco (Fam. 7. 11. 3)