cachinnum
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);
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...simulacrum Iovis, quod dissolvi transferrique Romam placuerat, tantum cachinnum repente edidit, ut machinis labefactis opifices diffugerint; supervenitque ilico..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...erunt fortunis absona dicta, Romani tollent equites peditesque cachinnum. Intererit multum, diuosne loquatur an heros, maturusne senex..."