ludibrium

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Noun

ludibrium (plural ludibria)

  1. (archaic, formal) A plaything or trivial game.
  2. (archaic, formal) A laughing stock.

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Latin

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Etymology

From ludus (“game”), related to ludo (“I mock”).

Pronunciation

Noun

lūdibrium n (genitive lūdibriī or lūdibrī); second declension

  1. mockery, derision
  2. wantonness
  3. laughing stock
  4. toy, plaything
    Synonym: crepundia

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lūdibrium lūdibria
Genitive lūdibriī
lūdibrī1 		lūdibriōrum
Dative lūdibriō lūdibriīs
Accusative lūdibrium lūdibria
Ablative lūdibriō lūdibriīs
Vocative lūdibrium lūdibria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Italian: ludibrio
  • Spanish: ludibrio

References

  • “ludibrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ludibrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ludibrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the plaything of Fortune: ludibrium fortunae
    • to serve as some one's butt: ludibrio esse alicui
    • to become an object of ridicule; to be laughed at: in ludibrium verti (Tac. Ann. 12. 26)
    • in sport, mockery: per ludibrium
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