English
risible
Risible comes from Late Latin rīsibilis ‘ridiculous, laughable, risible, ludicrous’, and goes back to Latin rīdeō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErīdeō‘laugh’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErīsus‘laughter’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CErīsibilis‘ridiculous, laughable, risible, ludicrous’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600risible
- Englishearliest quotation 1674same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErīdeō‘laugh’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErīsus‘laughter’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CErīsibilis‘ridiculous, laughable, risible, ludicrous’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600risible
- Englishearliest quotation 1674same form
Earliest quotation: 1674, Anonymous Richard Allestree?, Of Scoffing and Deriſion: “We are got indeed into a merry world, Laughing…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
word, university, worth, version, weird, conversation, universe, divorce, versus, diverse, verse, vertical, diversity, advertisement, versatile, vortex, advert, divert, revert, pervert, vertex, adversity, vertigo, avert, diversification, convertible, vert, verso, wurst, perversity, 72 more
through Latin rīdeō ‘laugh’
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to laughter.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin rīdeō / risible