The corpus record — Latin

cachinno1

cachinno1 · v. n

to laugh aloud

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

1. căchinno — Lewis & Short

căchinno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n.like kaxa/zw or kagxa/zw; Sanscr. kakk; and our titter, onomatop.,

I to laugh aloud, laugh immoderately.

I Lit. (class. but rare): famulae furtim cachinnant, Lucr. 4, 1176; 1, 919; 2, 976: ridere convivae; cachinnare ipse Apronius, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 62; Suet. Vesp. 5; Aur. Vict. Epit. 28.—With the acc. of that which one laughs at: exitum meum cachinnant, App. M. 3, p. 132, 25.—*

II Poet. (v. Liddell and Scott under kaxla/zw, ge/lws, ge/lasma, and Blomfield. Aesch. Prom. 90) of the sea, to plash, ripple, roar: suavisona echo crepitu clangente cachinnat, Att. ap. Non. p. 463, 16 (Trag. Rel. v. 572 Rib.).

2. căchinno — Lewis & Short

căchinno, ōnis, m.1. cachinno,

I one who laughs violently, a laugher, derider, kagxasth/s, Pers. 1, 12.

3. cachinnó — Walde–Hofmann

cachinnó, -@vr, -äre ‚hell auflachen* (auch vom Plätschern der Wogen Acc. 573, Catull 64, 273, vl. Bed.-Lw. nach xeyAdzu „plätschere*; seit Acc., rom.), cachinnus, -i m. „schallendes Gelächter (seit Lucil), -2i5 f. ds. seit Rhet. Her.): ai. kdichati, kakkhati, khakkhati (Gramm.) „lacht“, arm. zaxenk‘ ,cachinnus*, gr. kaydZu, jünger xarxdZw, kayxa&u „lache laut" (auch xapdZw ' yeA&v Hes. durch Kontamunation mit … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cachinnó, p. 158]

In the wild

cachinnat Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.7
cachinnent Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.919
cachinnant Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.976
cachinnant Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1176
cachinnasse Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 5.2.p2

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cachinnó (scan pp. 158-159; entry #480). Root candidates: *kük-.

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