Unknown; possibly related to alacer (“happy, glad, cheerful”). Often compared to lardum (“fat, bacon lard”) and largus (“abundant, bountiful”), presupposing an earlier form *lai-to and earlier *lai-es, but De Vaan finds this reconstruction problematic.

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laetus

Meaning

Concepts

Opposite of

trīstis, īnfēlīx, maestus, miser, aeger

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Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈɫae̯.tʊs]

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