iocus

From Proto-Italic *jokos, from Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak”). Compare Old High German jehan, Welsh iaith, Breton yezh. Cognate with English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯o.kus/, [ˈi̯ɔkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjo.kus/, [ˈjɔːkus]

iocus m (genitive iocī); second declension

1. a joke, jest
2. a form of amusement
3. pastime, sport

   Synonyms: lūdus, lūsus

Second-declension noun (otherwise or neuter).

The inflection is irregular. The neuter plural is more likely to denote a collective.

• iocus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I said it in jest: haec iocatus sum, per iocum dixi
    
  • (ambiguous) joking apart: extra iocum, remoto ioco (Fam. 7. 11. 3)
    
  • (ambiguous) to make a joke: ioco uti (Off. 1. 29. 103)
    
  • (ambiguous) joking apart: extra iocum, remoto ioco (Fam. 7. 11. 3)
    
• “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