The corpus record — Latin

cachinnus

cachinnus · m

a loud laugh

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.11/10k
C. Caligula 2 · 2.62/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Metamorphoses 8 · 1.5/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

căchinnus — Lewis & Short

căchinnus, i, m.id.,

I a loud laugh, immoderate laughter, a laugh in derision, a jeering.

I Lit. (class in prose and poetry; also in plur.): tum dulces esse cachinni consuerant, Lucr. 5, 1396; so id. 5, 1402: in quo Alcibiades cachinnum dicitur sustulisse, to have set up a loud laugh, Cic. Fat. 5, 10; Suet. Aug. 98: tollere, Hor. A. P. 113: cachinnos irridentium commovere, Cic. Brut. 60, 216: res digna tuo cachinno, Cat. 56, 2; 31, 14; 13, 5: securus, Col. 10, 280: perversus, Ov. A. A. 3, 287: major, Juv. 3, 100; 11, 2: rigidus, id. 10, 31: temulus, Pers. 3, 87: effusus in cachinnos, Suet. Calig. 32: cachinnum edere, id. ib. 57: cachinnos revocare, id. Claud. 41.—*

II Poet., of the sea (cf. 1, cachinno, II.), a plashing, rippling, roaring: leni resonant plangore cachinni, Cat. 64, 273 (cf. Aesch. Prom. 90' ponti/wn te kuma/twn u)nh/riqmon ge/lasma).

In the wild

cachinnos Suetonius, C. Caligula 32.3
cachinno Juvenal, Saturae 4.11.2
cachinnos Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.226
cachinnum Cicero, De Fato 10
cachinnum Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.12.p2
cachinno Persius, Saturae 1.12

6 of 36 attestations shown.

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.