The corpus record — Latin

cachinnatio

cachinnatio · f

a violent laughing

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Where it lives

Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

căchinnātĭo — Lewis & Short

căchinnātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a violent laughing, immoderate laughter: sine ullā suspitione nimiae suspitionis, Auct. Her. 3, 14, 25: ut si ridere concessum sit, vituperetur tamen cachinnatio, Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 66.

In the wild

cachinnatio Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.66

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.