gaudi

Learned borrowing from Latin gaudium. Doublet of goig, a popular development.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈɡaw.ði]

gaudi m (plural gaudis)

1. enjoyment, delight

   Synonym: gaudiment

• gaudir

• “gaudi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /ɡo.di/

gaudi (feminine gaudie, masculine plural gaudis, feminine plural gaudies)

1. past participle of gaudir

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gaudi m

1. (rare) plural of gaudio

• Giuda, giuda, guadi, guida

• gaudy, gaudee

Borrowed from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡau̯diː/

gaudi (plural gaudis)

1. jest, trick
2. ornamentation
3. a large, ornamental bead in a rosary
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     A paire of bedes blacke as sable
     She toke and hynge my necke about,
     Upon the gaudees all without
     Was wryte of gold, pur reposer

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• English: gaudy
• Yola: gaudés (plural)

• “gaudī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.