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Latin
Etymology
From iocus (“jest, joke”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
iocōsus (feminine iocōsa, neuter iocōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- funny, full of jesting, jocose, humorous, jokey, light-hearted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “jocosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “iocosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iocosus 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)