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Pythia | 10:26 Mon 03rd Oct 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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Can anyone translate for me this (possibly cod) Latin phrase?

 Iocunde premamus!

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Are you sure you've spelt all that correctly? Is it iocunde or locunde, for example?
"We have intercourse merrily" is one possible translation!
Or what about "We squeeze pleasantly"? This and my answer above assume the opening word starts with a capital 'I' and not a lower case 'L'.
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Well spotted, chaps. I thought it was a lower-case L, but changing the font has revealed that it's an upper-case i. If it's a pun on music (as in melodeons) and another pleasant pastime, as in Quizmonster's first answer, then the mystery is solved. Is the Latin for squeeze a euphemism, then? Or does the word have two meanings?

The Latin verb - of which 'premamus' would be the first person plural present indicative tense form...ie 'we do' (whatever it is) - means press, squeeze, thrust, have intercourse with etc.
The English word 'jocund', meaning merry, cheerful, pleasant etc, comes from the Latin 'iocundus/iucundus'.
So, there you have a variety of possible translations, including the two I've already offered. The phrase is, of course, merely cod Latin rather than something Pliny might have written!
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Thank you, Quizmonster. It would indeed be a musical/suggestive pun and we have outwitted my smartass chum wot wrote it. Vale! Pythia

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