REJOICE Copy link • REJOICEIntransitively, gaudere: laetari (to be glad; Vid: JOY): gestire (to show joy by outward gestures): subridere (to smile). To rejoice at anything, gaudere, laetari aliqua re, de or in aliqua re (the latter construction when the joy is represented as lasting: the construction with the accusative almost entirely limited to pronouns in the neuter): delectari aliqua re (to delight in anything): to rejoice very much, gaudere vehementerque laetari: non mediocrem voluptatem animo capere; (in a thing) magnam laetitiam, voluptatem, capere (or percipere) ex re: magnae laetitiae mihi est aliquid: aliqua re gaudio exsultare (to leap or jump for joy): to rejoice secretly, secum tacitum gaudere: to rejoice within one’s self, in sinu gaudere (of malicious joy): to rejoice unspeakably, incredibiliter gaudere: my heart rejoices, impendio mihi animus gaudet (Ter., Eun., 3, 5, 39): to rejoice with anyone, una, gaudere: gaudio alicujus gaudere (rather poetic, Tac., Andr., 5, 5, 8, and caelius, ap. Cic., Ep., 8, 2, 1). Transitively, gaudio afficere. Vid. DELIGHT, v.