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Latin
Etymology
From volup (“pleasurably”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
voluptās f (genitive voluptātis); third declension
- pleasure, satisfaction, delight
- Synonyms: dēlectātiō, frūctus
- (term of endearment) joy, charmer
- Synonyms: gaudium, dēlicium, laetitia, alacritās
- Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, dēsīderium
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “voluptas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “voluptas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- voluptas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to derive pleasure from a thing: voluptatem ex aliqua re capere or percipere
- to revel in pleasure, be blissfully happy: voluptate perfundi
- to take one's fill of enjoyment: voluptatibus frui
- to take one's fill of enjoyment: voluptates haurire
- to devote oneself absolutely to the pursuit of pleasure: se totum voluptatibus dedere, tradere
- to be led astray, corrupted by the allurements of pleasure: voluptatis illecebris deleniri
- to be led astray, corrupted by the allurements of pleasure: voluptatis blanditiis corrumpi
- to plunge into a life of pleasure: in voluptates se mergere
- to hold aloof from all amusement: animum a voluptate sevocare
- sensual pleasure: voluptates (corporis)
- for one's own diversion; to satisfy a whim: voluptatis or animi causa (B. G. 5. 12)