rident

English

Etymology

From Latin ridens, present participle of ridere (“to laugh”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪdənt/

Adjective

rident (comparative more rident, superlative most rident)

laughing
- 1863, William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers:
  a smile so wide and steady , so exceedingly rident

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Tinder, dirten, tinder, trined

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁid/

Verb

rident

third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of rider

Anagrams

dirent
rendit, rendît

Latin

Verb

rīdent

third-person plural present active indicative of rīdeō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ridente.

Adjective

rident m or n (feminine singular ridentă, masculine plural ridenți, feminine and neuter plural ridente)

(dated) laughing

Declension

Declension of rident

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	rident		ridentă	ridenți	ridente
nominative/ accusative	definite	ridentul		ridenta	ridenții	ridentele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	rident		ridente	ridenți	ridente
genitive/ dative	definite	ridentului		ridentei	ridenților	ridentelor

References

rident in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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