cachinnate en · VERB
Pronunciation
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- /ˈkækɪneɪt/
Etymology
From Latin cachinnō (“laugh aloud”), of onomatopoeic origin.
Meanings
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(intransitive) To laugh immoderately, loudly, or too often.
The villain began to cachinnate and twirl his moustache.
There is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comet’s tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of Tartarus.
1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu. The Madness from the Sea.”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XI, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 178, column 2:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cachinnated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| cachinnated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| cachinnates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| cachinnating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
cachinnatory · cachinnator · cachinnation
Synonyms
Translations (2)
ar قَهْقَهَ (to laugh immoderately, loudly, or too often) · ru хохота́ть (to laugh immoderately, loudly, or too often)