Latin

Verb

rīdeō ‎(present infinitive rīdēre, perfect active rīsī, supine rīsum); second conjugation

1. (intransitive) I laugh.
2. (transitive) I laugh at, ridicule, mock.
   • c. 185 BCE – 159 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus

     GNATHO: Ha, ha, he.
     THRASO: Quid rides?

     GNATHO: Ha, ha, ha!
     THRASO: What are you laughing at?

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• rīdiculē

Descendants

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rideo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Roberts, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots: Volume II
• de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.