English
derision
Derision comes from Latin derideō ‘to laugh at, mock, make fun of, deride’, and goes back to rīdeō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErīdeō‘laugh’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEderideōas dērīdēre‘to laugh at, mock, make fun of, deride’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdērīsiōnem
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400derision
- Englishearliest quotation 1847derision
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErīdeō‘laugh’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEderideōas dērīdēre‘to laugh at, mock, make fun of, deride’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdērīsiōnem
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400derision
- Englishearliest quotation 1847derision
Earliest quotation: 1847, – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray: “Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
word, worth, university, weird, universe, divorce, version, conversation, versus, diverse, diversity, vertical, verse, advertisement, versatile, vortex, convertible, advert, divert, revert, pervert, adversity, vertex, vertigo, avert, vertebrate, subvert, diversification, introvert, vert, verso, wurst, perversity, 71 more
through Latin rīdeō ‘laugh’
through Latin derideō ‘to laugh at, mock, make fun of, deride’
Today it means
noun Act of treating with disdain.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin rīdeō / derision