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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."
