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rideo

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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).

Matasović connects this with Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (to scratch).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) to laugh
    Synonym: cachinnō
    Antonym: fleō
  2. (transitive) to laugh at, ridicule, mock
    Synonyms: lūdificō, ēlūdō, trādūcō

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Reflexes of the Late Latin variant rīdĕre:[2]

Reflexes of an assumed Vulgar Latin variant *rīdīre:[3]

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2024), “The etymology of Latin rīdeō and a new PIE root”, in Glotta, volume 100, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 327–331
  2. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “rīdēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 399
  3. ^ Williams, Edwin B. 1962. From Latin to Portuguese: Historical phonology and morphology of the Portuguese language. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Page 232.

Further reading

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  • 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, →ISBN, page 522

Spanish

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Verb

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rideo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ridear