risor

Latin

Etymology

From rīdeō (“to laugh, laugh at”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, suffix forming agent nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.s̬or]

Noun

rīsor m (genitive rīsōris); third declension

1. A laugher, mocker, banterer.

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rīsor	rīsōrēs
genitive	rīsōris	rīsōrum
dative	rīsōrī	rīsōribus
accusative	rīsōrem	rīsōrēs
ablative	rīsōre	rīsōribus
vocative	rīsor	rīsōrēs

Derived terms

• rīsōrius (adjective)

References

• “risor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press