English

Alternative forms

• Volupta

Proper noun

Voluptas

1. (Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of sensual pleasures. She is the daughter of Eros/Cupid and Psyche, and the grandaughter of Aphrodite/Venus. She is the Roman counterpart of Hedone.

Translations

Latin

Noun

voluptās f ‎(genitive voluptātis); third declension

1. pleasure

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• voluptas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• voluptas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “voluptas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to derive pleasure from a thing: voluptatem ex aliqua re capere or percipere
    
  • to revel in pleasure, be blissfully happy: voluptate perfundi
    
  • to take one's fill of enjoyment: voluptatibus frui
    
  • to take one's fill of enjoyment: voluptates haurire
    
  • to devote oneself absolutely to the pursuit of pleasure: se totum voluptatibus dedere, tradere
    
  • to be led astray, corrupted by the allurements of pleasure: voluptatis illecebris deleniri
    
  • to be led astray, corrupted by the allurements of pleasure: voluptatis blanditiis corrumpi
    
  • to plunge into a life of pleasure: in voluptates se mergere
    
  • to hold aloof from all amusement: animum a voluptate sevocare
    
  • sensual pleasure: voluptates (corporis)
    
  • for one's own diversion; to satisfy a whim: voluptatis or animi causa (B. G. 5. 12)