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ridens

ridens is a Latin form of rideo, meaning “laugh, laugh at; smile on”. It is the present active participle accusative singular neuter or present active participle nominative singular masculine or present active participle vocative singular masculine or present active participle nominative singular feminine.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.6: … bus, non intellegere interdum, quid sonet haec vox voluptatis, id est quae res huic voci subiciatur. Tum ille ridens: Hoc vero, inquit, optimum, ut is, qui finem rerum expetendarum voluptatem esse dicat, id extremum, id ultimu …

Martial, Epigrammata 6.78.5: Ridens Phryx oculo 'Valebis' inquit.

All forms of rideo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.