jocund
English
Etymology
From Old French jocond, from Latin iūcundus (“pleasant, agreeable”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: jo‧cund
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɒkənd/, /ˈd͡ʒəʊkənd/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) enPR: jäkʹənd, jōʹkənd, IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑkənd/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊkənd/
Adjective
jocund (comparative more jocund, superlative most jocund)(formal)
- Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, OCLC 503903918, [Act III, scene v]:
- Nights candles are burnt out, and iocond Day / Stands tiptoes on the myſtie mountaine tops.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], page 12, column 2:
- Thou mak'ſt me merry: I am full of pleaſure, / Let vs be iocond. Will you troule the Catch / You taught me but whileare?
- 1612, [Miguel de Cervantes]; Thomas Shelton, transl., “Which Treates of the Strange Aduentures that Hapned to the Knight of the Mancha, in Sierra Morena: And of the Penance He Did there, in Imitation of Belti Nebros”, in The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, OCLC 84747867, part 3, page 243:
- There was once a widdow faire, young, free, rich, and withall very pleaſant and iocund, that fell in loue with a certaine round and well-ſet ſeruant of a Colledge: […]
- 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Toil, page 107:
- First in his train is jocund Health,
Content, who o'er her distaff sings,
And from the plough that honest Wealth
Which scorns the tear-bought robe of kings.—
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Derived terms
- jocundity
- jocundly
- jocundness
Translations
jovial, exuberant, lighthearted; merry and in high spirits
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