gaudium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === gau (pre-classical, poetic) gaudius (post-classical) === Etymology === From gaudeō +‎ -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡau̯.di.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡaːu̯.di.um] === Noun === gaudium n (genitive gaudiī or gaudī); second declension joy, delight Synonyms: dēlicium, dēlectātiō, voluptās, laetitia, frūctus, alacritās Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, dēsīderium ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== gaudiālis gaudibundus gaudimōnium gaudivigēns ==== Related terms ==== gaudēns gaudeō gāvīsus ==== Descendants ==== === References === Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “gozo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 185 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “gaudium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 80 === Further reading === “gaudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “gaudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “gaudium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.