deriserit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →derideo, deridere, derisi, derisus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
mock/deride/laugh at/make fun of; be able to laugh, escape, get off scot free;
sg. futperf. act. ind. 3rdsg. perf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...oboedirent, si hic me hodie umbraticus deriserit? IV.iv Cappadox Quoi homini di sunt propitii, ei non esse iratos..."[Proverbs]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...Nondum felix es, si non te turba deriserit. 24. Si vis beatus esse, cogita hoc primum: Contemne contemni..."