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ridiculus
ridiculus
Latin
Adjective
rīdiculus m (feminine rīdicula, neuter rīdiculum); first/second declension
Inflection
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 | |
Synonyms
- (laughable): rīdiculārius
Derived terms
- perrīdiculus
- rīdiculārius
- rīdiculē
- rīdiculōsus
- rīdiculum
Related terms
Descendants
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References
- 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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ridiculus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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)
- to make a joke of a thing: aliquid ad ridiculum convertere