iocus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *jokos, from Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak”). Compare Old High German jehan, Welsh iaith, Breton yezh. Possibly cognate with English Yule, Danish jul, Norwegian Bokmål jul, Swedish jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol. Compare typologically Russian прибау́тка (pribaútka) (akin to ба́ять (bájatʹ), ба́йка (bájka)). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈjɔ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈjɔː.kus] === Noun === iocus m (genitive iocī); second declension a joke, jest a form of amusement pastime, sport Synonyms: lūdus, lūsus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (otherwise or neuter). The inflection is irregular. The neuter plural is more likely to denote a collective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === "iocus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “jocus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “iocus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 308