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gaudeo
gaudeo
Latin
Verb
gaudeō (present infinitive gaudēre, perfect active gāvīsus sum); second conjugation, semi-deponent
- I rejoice.
- Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus ― Let us therefore rejoice, while we are still young (from the song De Brevitate Vitae).
- I take pleasure in.
Inflection
| Conjugation of gaudeo (second conjugation, semi-deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | gaudeō | gaudēs | gaudet | gaudēmus | gaudētis | gaudent |
| imperfect | gaudēbam | gaudēbās | gaudēbat | gaudēbāmus | gaudēbātis | gaudēbant | |
| future | gaudēbō | gaudēbis | gaudēbit | gaudēbimus | gaudēbitis | gaudēbunt | |
| perfect | gāvīsus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | gāvīsus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | gāvīsus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | gaudeam | gaudeās | gaudeat | gaudeāmus | gaudeātis | gaudeant |
| imperfect | gaudērem | gaudērēs | gaudēret | gaudērēmus | gaudērētis | gaudērent | |
| perfect | gāvīsus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | gāvīsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | gaudē | — | — | gaudēte | — |
| future | — | gaudētō | gaudētō | — | gaudētōte | gaudentō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | gaudēre | gāvīsus esse | gāvīsūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | gaudēns | gāvīsus | gāvīsūrus | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| gaudēre | gaudendī | gaudendō | gaudendum | gāvīsum | gāvīsū | ||
Derived terms
Terms derived from gaudeo
Related terms
- gaudiālis
- gaudimōnium
- gaudivigēns
Descendants
References
- 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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gaudeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to rejoice in secret: in sinu gaudere (Tusc. 3. 21. 51)
- to rejoice in secret: in sinu gaudere (Tusc. 3. 21. 51)