gaudens

Present active participle of gaudeō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡau̯.dẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaːu̯.d̪ens]

gaudēns (genitive gaudentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. rejoicing
   • Et cum invēnerit eam, impōnit humerōs suōs gaudēns (Lucas 15:5):

     and when he finds it, he puts it on his shoulders rejoicing (Luke 15:5)

2. taking pleasure in, delighting, enjoying
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.189–190:

     Haec tum multiplicī populōs sermōne replēbat / gaudēns [...].

     Now [Rumor] was sating the peoples [of Africa] with many a tale, delighting [in it] [...].
     (Fama or Rumor spreads talk of Dido and Aeneas beyond Carthage.)

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “gaudens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gaudens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "gaudens", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• gaudens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.