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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ilˈlu.do/
- Rhymes: -udo
- Hyphenation: il‧lù‧do
Verb
illudo
- first-person singular present indicative of illudere
Latin
Etymology
From il- + lūdō.
Pronunciation
Verb
illūdō (present infinitive illūdere, perfect active illūsī, supine illūsum); third conjugation
- to mock, ridicule
- to abuse, assault
Conjugation
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Descendants
References
- “illudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- illudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to insult a person's dignity: auctoritati, dignitati alicuius illudere
- to make sport of, rally a person: illudere alicui or in aliquem (more rarely aliquem)