gaudeo

From Proto-Italic *gāwidēō, from earlier *gāwidējō, from Proto-Indo-European *geh₂widéh₁yeti, from an adjective *geh₂widos (which would be *gavidus similar to avidus and to āridus), from *geh₂w- (“to rejoice”). The stem, gāwid-, was made gaud-, but gāwidtos was made gavīsus retaining the i, which was lost in ausus (< awidtos) and in ārsus (< āridtos).

Cognate with gaudium, Gāius, Ancient Greek γηθέω (gēthéō), γαίω (gaíō), γάνῡμαι (gánūmai), γαῦρος (gaûros), γάνος (gános), Middle Irish guaire (“noble”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡau̯.de.oː/, [ˈɡäu̯d̪eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡau̯.de.o/, [ˈɡäːu̯d̪eo]

gaudeō (present infinitive gaudēre, perfect active gāvīsus sum); second conjugation, semi-deponent

1. to rejoice, make merry

   Synonyms: exhilarō, exsultō, ovō, grātulor, congrātulor, fruor

   Antonym: displiceō

   Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus.

   Let us therefore rejoice, while we are still young.

   (from the song De Brevitate Vitae)

2. to take pleasure in, be pleased with, delight in, enjoy

   Synonym: pāscor

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.811:

     Quid, victor, gaudēs? Haec tē victōria perdet.

     What, victor, pleases you? This victory will destroy you.
     (The poet admonishes Sextus Tarquinius for his actions and foreshadows events which will follow the rape of Lucretia.)

• gaudiālis
• gaudimōnium
• gaudivigēns

• Balkan romance:
  • Megleno-Romanian: găudi
• Dalmatian:
  • gaudar
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: godere
    • → Sardinian: godire, bodire (Logudorese)
  • Neapolitan: godere
  • Sicilian: gòdiri, còliri
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: gjoldi
  • Istriot: guodi
  • Ladin: goder
  • Romagnol: gudér
  • Romansch: giudair, guder (Sursilvan), giuder (Sutsilvan), galdeir (Surmiran), giodair (Puter, Vallader)
  • Venetan: gòder
    • → Cimbrian: gòdaran
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: goir
  • Old French: joir (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: gausir
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: godir
  • Portuguese: gouvir (archaic)
• Borrowings
  • → Catalan: gaudir
  • → English: gaud
  • → French: gaudir (archaic)
  • → Maltese: gawda (via some Romance language)
  • → Occitan: gaudir
  • → Portuguese: gaudiar

• “gaudeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gaudeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gaudeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rejoice in secret: in sinu gaudere (Tusc. 3. 21. 51)