derideo Latin · revision 31407

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la rīdeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈriː.de.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈriː.de.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dērīdeō''' (present infinitive dērīdēre, perfect active dērīsī, supine dērīsum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is spelled ''dīr-'' in a manuscript of Terence and in some biblical manuscripts.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|dē-|t=down]] and [[m|la|rīdeō|t=to laugh]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no good Indo-European etymology for ⟨rīdeō⟩ and calls the old link with [[sa|व्रीडते|tr=vrīḍate|t=is shy]] gratuitous in meaning.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Plautus,^(TLL) who has “but you'll laugh at me” in the ''Epidicus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to laugh at, laugh to scorn, scoff at or deride, as Cicero's “laugh at and despise all those people”, and absolutely to mock, as Plautus' “you are making fun of me”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Lewis and Short note the proverb ''albīs dentibus dērīdēre'', to laugh at someone openly.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Petronius it is to be able to laugh, that is, to get away with it: “you'll come under my teeth, or I don't know myself, and you won't get off scot-free”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “deride, mock, scoff at, laugh at”,^(Stelten 1995) and the Vulgate has it of mocking the sabbaths.^(Lewis & Short 1879) English ''deride'' came from it in the 1520s, through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of mocking.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of scorn.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius of getting off scot-free.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1520s – English [[m|en|deride]] is from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To laugh at, [[m|en|deride]], [[m|en|mock]], scoff at.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To be able to laugh, get off scot-free.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dērīdiculus]]

+ * [[dērīsiō]]

+ * [[dērīsor]]

+ * [[dērīsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rīdeō]]

+ * [[irrīdeō]]

+ * [[en|deride]]

+ * [[en|derision]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}