ridiculus

From rīdeō (“laugh; mock”) +‎ -icus (“-ish”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /riːˈdi.ku.lus/, [riːˈd̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /riˈdi.ku.lus/, [riˈd̪iːkulus]

rīdiculus (feminine rīdicula, neuter rīdiculum, superlative rīdiculissimus, adverb rīdiculē); first/second-declension adjective

1. laughable, funny, amusing
2. silly, absurd, ridiculous

First/second-declension adjective.

• (laughable): rīdiculārius

• dērīdiculus
• perrīdiculus
• rīdiculārius
• rīdiculē
• rīdiculōsus
• rīdiculum

• rīdeō

• “ridiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ridiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ridiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a joke of a thing: aliquid ad ridiculum convertere
    
  • a wit; a joker: (homo) ridiculus (Plaut. Stich. 1. 3. 21)