Gaudium Gratia Gaudii

[fflo]

That's the suggestion from a helpful chimer-in over at latinitas.

Comments

[groovesinorbit]

I like it! Did you find out the word for belly while you were over there?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Didn't think to ask! But it's been a day for Latin. Was talking about QED, once I remembered the expression I was after, when an editor inquired about whether we ever use a certain method involving a box at the end of a proof. That reminded me of the 3 dots at the end of a proof, and the phrase.

[groovesinorbit]

I always liked those three dots.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I still like "Goofus Gratia Goofus," but this will do. But as an etymology lesson, does this mean "gaudy" is fun?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Well, more or less, yes! Same root, that is. "Gaudium" means "joy , gladness, delight; a source of delight" -- and then we have "gaudere gavisus sum" = to rejoice , be glad (with abl. of cause, to delight in) and "in sinu gaudere" = to rejoice in secret

Another Latiner (or whatever the term is) just chimed in to say "we already have a good Latin idiom for 'just for fun': animi causa."