What is the distinction between gaudium and laetitia when both denote joy?

Laetitia is a state of being, from laetus happy. Someone who is laetus has gaudium, in the sense that someone who is rich has money. It more generally should be translated as happiness instead of joy. It should be noted that the two words became synonymous in poetry and in later Latin prose.

1. What is the Latin word for fun?
2. What is the Latin word for sunshine?
3. What is the Latin word for success?
4. What is unique in Latin?
5. What are the longest Latin words?
6. What is genius in Latin?
7. What was Moon called in Latin?
8. What do French call sun?
9. Is Nox a Latin word?
10. What is the most famous Latin phrase?
11. What's Latin for intelligence?
12. What is the Latin word for enjoy?
13. What is creativity in Latin?
14. What is Gaster in Latin?
15. What is Aevitas Latin?
16. What is the Latin root for happy?
17. What is the ancient Latin word for love?
18. What is romantic in Latin?

What is the Latin word for fun?

Otium, a Latin abstract term, has a variety of meanings, including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, relaxing, contemplation and academic endeavors.

What is the Latin word for sunshine?

Latin translation: lux solaris

"Light" or "shine" is "lux". You can they either use a genitive "lux solis = light/shine of the sun" or an adjective "lux solaris = sunlight/shine".

What is the Latin word for success?

Etymology. Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”).

What is unique in Latin?

unique (adj.)

c. 1600, "single, solitary," from French unique (16c.), from Latin unicus "only, single, sole, alone of its kind," from unus "one" (from PIE root *oi-no- "one, unique").

What are the longest Latin words?

Latin. The longest attested word in Classical Latin is subductisupercilicarptor, which was coined by the obscure poet Laevius in the 1st century. In Medieval Latin, the longest known word is honorificabilitudinitas, which was first attested in a treatise written by the 8th century Grammarian Peter of Pisa.

What is genius in Latin?

Etymology. From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus.

What was Moon called in Latin?

Lunar comes from the Latin word luna, meaning moon. The Roman goddess of the moon is called Luna (Selene in Greek mythology).

What do French call sun?

noun. le soleil masc. in the sun au soleil.

Is Nox a Latin word?

Etymology 1

From Latin nox (“night; darkness”), by analogy with lux from Latin lūx (“light; daylight, day”).

What is the most famous Latin phrase?

Carpe diem.

Seize the day. Probably the most popular Latin phrase of modern times.

What's Latin for intelligence?

The direct antecedents of the word 'intelligence' lie in the Latin intelligentia or intellegentia meaning “the action or faculty of understanding,” itself derived from the Latin intellegere meaning 'to understand.

What is the Latin word for enjoy?

vivere [3] litt.

What is creativity in Latin?

The word “creativity” comes from a Latin word “creo” which means to make or create something.

What is Gaster in Latin?

gastere; or gaster, gen.sg. gastri (s.m.II), abl. sg. gastro: belly, stomach to do; may be compounded in either Latin or Greek, but the Latin word derives from the Greek and most compounds are with Greek elements; = Latin: venter,-tris, q.v.; see stomach.

What is Aevitas Latin?

Archaic form of aetās (“lifetime, age”).

What is the Latin root for happy?

Both in Spanish and Portuguese (as well as in the Italian felicità), the words for happiness have a root in the Latin word 'felix'.

What is the ancient Latin word for love?

amor : love, affection, infatuation, passion.

What is romantic in Latin?

From romant +‎ -ic, or borrowed from Late Latin romanticus (“(of a poem) having qualities of a romance”).