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
- T
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..." - D
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..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...candida puella et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis. haec si, inquam, attuleris, venuste noster, cenabis bene..."