English
derisive
Derisive comes from Latin dērīdeō ‘to deride’, and goes back to rīdeō ‘laugh’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErīdeō‘laugh’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdērīdeō‘to deride’
- Englishearliest quotation 1894derisive
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErīdeō‘laugh’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdērīdeō‘to deride’
- Englishearliest quotation 1894derisive
Earliest quotation: 1894, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Stickit Minister: And Some Common Men: “The three lambs stood at bay, huddled close together,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
word, worth, weird, university, version, conversation, divorce, universe, versus, vertical, verse, diversity, vortex, advertisement, versatile, convertible, advert, revert, pervert, adversity, divert, vertex, vertigo, diversification, avert, vertebrate, introvert, subvert, vert, verso, wurst, perversity, 72 more
through Latin rīdeō ‘laugh’
through Latin dērīdeō ‘to deride’
Today it means
adj Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin rīdeō / derisive