Dictionary formvoluptas, voluptatis(feminine)
Translation
pleasure, delight; enjoyment
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Grammar
Cases
| Case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativethe subject | voluptas | voluptates |
| Vocativecalling someone: O ... | voluptas | voluptates |
| Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), per | voluptatem | voluptates |
| Genitiveof | voluptatis | voluptatum |
| Dativeto, for | voluptati | voluptatibus |
| Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sine | voluptate | voluptatibus |
Examples
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Pleasure is short, virtue everlasting.
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He shuns the pleasures of the body.
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We read with great pleasure.
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He does nothing for the sake of pleasure.
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There is no pleasure without pain.
Voluptas, voluptatis, f., third declension, built on the same root as volo, "to wish": a pleasure is what you want. That neutrality does not last. Epicurus made voluptas the highest good, Cicero and Seneca spent careers attacking the position, and by the imperial period the word carries a body with it - voluptas is indulgence, set against honestas, while gaudium is the calm joy a wise man is allowed to keep.
Christian writers inherit the hostility without changing a word of it, which is why in this corpus voluptas is nearly always something being renounced. English voluptuous preserves the sensual charge intact; volition and voluntary come off the same wanting with none of it.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 3: voluptas, classis, mirus and 6 more words.