ludibrium

English

Noun

ludibrium (plural ludibria)

1. (archaic, formal) A plaything or trivial game.
2. (archaic, formal) A laughing stock.

Related terms

• ludibry

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Latin

Etymology

From ludus (“game”), related to ludo (“I mock”).

Noun

lūdībrium n (genitive lūdībriī or lūdībrī); second declension

1. mockery, derision
2. wantonness
3. laughing stock

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lūdībrium	lūdībria
Genitive	lūdībriī lūdībrī1	lūdībriōrum
Dative	lūdībriō	lūdībriīs
Accusative	lūdībrium	lūdībria
Ablative	lūdībriō	lūdībriīs
Vocative	lūdībrium	lūdībria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: ludibrio
• Spanish: ludibrio

References

• “ludibrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ludibrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ludibrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the plaything of Fortune: ludibrium fortunae
    
  • to serve as some one's butt: ludibrio esse alicui
    
  • to become an object of ridicule; to be laughed at: in ludibrium verti (Tac. Ann. 12. 26)
    
  • in sport, mockery: per ludibrium