rideo
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain origin. Roberts assigns Proto-Indo-European *wert- in the sense of turning the mouth to smile; de Vaan finds no credible Indo-European origin and rejects connections to Sanskrit व्रीडते (vrīḍate, “to be shy, bashful”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈriː.de.oː/
Verb
rīdeō (present infinitive rīdēre, perfect active rīsī, supine rīsum); second conjugation
- (intransitive) I laugh.
- (transitive) I laugh at, ridicule, mock.
- c. 185 BCE – 159 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 497
- GNATHO: Hahahae.
THRASO: Quid rides?- GNATHO: Hahaha!
THRASO: What are you laughing at?
- GNATHO: Hahaha!
- GNATHO: Hahahae.
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Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- rideo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rideo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rideo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
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