ridiculus

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From rīdeō (“laugh; mock”).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /riːˈdi.ku.lus/

AdjectiveEdit

rīdiculus (feminine rīdicula, neuter rīdiculum); first/second declension

1. laughable, funny, amusing
2. silly, absurd, ridiculous

InflectionEdit

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	rīdiculus	rīdicula	rīdiculum		rīdiculī	rīdiculae	rīdicula
genitive	rīdiculī	rīdiculae	rīdiculī		rīdiculōrum	rīdiculārum	rīdiculōrum
dative	rīdiculō		rīdiculō		rīdiculīs
accusative	rīdiculum	rīdiculam	rīdiculum		rīdiculōs	rīdiculās	rīdicula
ablative	rīdiculō	rīdiculā	rīdiculō		rīdiculīs
vocative	rīdicule	rīdicula	rīdiculum		rīdiculī	rīdiculae	rīdicula

SynonymsEdit

• (laughable): rīdiculārius

Derived termsEdit

• perrīdiculus
• rīdiculārius
• rīdiculē
• rīdiculōsus
• rīdiculum

Related termsEdit

• rīdeō

DescendantsEdit

• Catalan: ridícul
• English: ridiculous, ridicule
• French: ridicule
• Italian: ridicolo

• Portuguese: ridículo
• Romanian: ridicol
• Sicilian: ridìculu
• Spanish: ridículo

ReferencesEdit

• ridiculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ridiculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ridiculus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a joke of a thing: aliquid ad ridiculum convertere
    
  • a wit; a joker: (homo) ridiculus (Plaut. Stich. 1. 3. 21)