jocund

From Old French jocond, from Latin iūcundus (“pleasant, agreeable”).

• Hyphenation: jo‧cund
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɒkənd/ or IPA^(key): /ˈdʒəʊkənd/
• (US) enPR: jäkʹənd, IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɑːkənd/ or enPR: jōʹkənd, IPA^(key): /ˈdʒoʊkənd/

jocund (comparative more jocund, superlative most jocund)

1. Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Thomas Shelton, translator, Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

     There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund, that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college.

   • (Can we date this quote?), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

     Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

   • 1807, William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

     a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company

• jocundly