iocundus

== Latin == === Etymology === From earlier iūcundus, with the vowel altered on the basis of iocus — unstressed short ŏ and long ō came to be pronounced identically by the Late Latin (or Proto-Romance) period. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [joːˈkʊn.dʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [joˈkun.dus] More often attested as iōcundus, the alternative iŏcundus is found in the poet Avianus (dactylic pentameter): Grātĭă reddātur | undĕ iŏcundă vĕnit. === Adjective === iōcundus (feminine iōcunda, neuter iōcundum, adverb iōcundē); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin) alternative form of iūcundus (“pleasant”) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “iocundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press