English
rident
Rident comes from Latin ridens ‘ridiculing, laughing’, and goes back to rideō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErideōas ridere, present participle‘to laugh’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEridens‘ridiculing, laughing’
- Englishearliest quotation 1863rident
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErideōas ridere, present participle‘to laugh’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEridens‘ridiculing, laughing’
- Englishearliest quotation 1863rident
Earliest quotation: 1863, William Makepeace Thackeray: “a smile so wide and steady , so exceedingly…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
university, word, worth, version, weird, conversation, universe, divorce, diversity, versus, diverse, verse, vertical, versatile, advertisement, convertible, vortex, advert, divert, adversity, revert, pervert, diversification, vertex, vertigo, avert, vert, verso, perversity, wurst, 72 more
through Latin rideō ‘to laugh’
Today it means
adj laughing
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin rideō / rident