derisus
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;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →derisus, derisa -um, derisior -or -us, derisissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
absurd, laughable; scorned (L+S);
nom. sg. (m.) - Entry →derisus, derisus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
mockery; scorn, derision;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.nom. sg.voc. pl.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...agant; inepti et inertes vocantur. Mihi contingat iste derisus: aequo animo audienda sunt inperitorum convicia et ad honesta..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...magno teste laudatus es; si falsa, sine teste derisus es. Possum et ipse nunc uideri te aut captare..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Naribus labrisque non fere quicquam decenter ostendimus, tametsi derisus contemptus fastidium significari solet. Nam et "corrugare nares..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Adicitur his mycterismos, dissimulatus quidem sed non latens derisus. Pluribus autem verbis cum id quod uno aut paucioribus..." - M
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...adulescentiae, defendere amores. Nonnumquam etiam lenis caloris affeni derisus ex hac forma venit, sed is non ex iocis..." - M
VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...lacrimas ipsas novissime perdo: inanis domi libitina plangitur, derisus dissignator redit, refertur rogus. inter haec omnia non gemitus..."
