risus
See also: rīsus
Latin
editEtymology
editPerfect passive participle of rīdeō (“laugh”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈriː.sus/, [ˈriːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈri.sus/, [ˈriːs̬us]
Participle
editrīsus (feminine rīsa, neuter rīsum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | rīsus | rīsa | rīsum | rīsī | rīsae | rīsa | |
Genitive | rīsī | rīsae | rīsī | rīsōrum | rīsārum | rīsōrum | |
Dative | rīsō | rīsō | rīsīs | ||||
Accusative | rīsum | rīsam | rīsum | rīsōs | rīsās | rīsa | |
Ablative | rīsō | rīsā | rīsō | rīsīs | |||
Vocative | rīse | rīsa | rīsum | rīsī | rīsae | rīsa |
Noun
editrīsus m (genitive rīsūs); fourth declension
Usage notes
edit- Often used with "movere" (risum movere) to mean "make [someone] laugh".
Declension
editFourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rīsus | rīsūs |
Genitive | rīsūs | rīsuum |
Dative | rīsuī | rīsibus |
Accusative | rīsum | rīsūs |
Ablative | rīsū | rīsibus |
Vocative | rīsus | rīsūs |
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “risus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “risus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- risus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- risus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to begin to laugh: risum edere, tollere
- to raise a laugh: risum movere, concitare
- to make a person laugh: risum elicere (more strongly excutere) alicui
- to try and raise a laugh: risum captare
- to be scarcely able to restrain one's laughter: risum tenere vix posse
- to be scarcely able to restrain one's laughter: risum aegre continere posse
- to make a thing ridiculous, turn it into a joke: aliquid in risum vertere
- to begin to laugh: risum edere, tollere
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- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin masculine nouns
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- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
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