cachinni
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cachinnus, cachinni:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
loud/excessive/boisterous/derisive laugh, guffaw; jeer; (applied to waves);
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...herbas. tum ioca, tum sermo, tum dulces esse cachinni consuerant; agrestis enim tum musa vigebat. tum caput atque..."Satura X
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...flebat contrarius auctor? sed facilis cuiuis rigidi censura cachinni: mirandum est unde ille oculis suffecerit umor. perpetuo risu..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...candida puella et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis. haec si, inquam, attuleris, venuste noster, cenabis bene..."