laughter
Senso (Inglese)
- (uncountable, usually) The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
- (uncountable, usually) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
- (archaic, uncountable, usually) A reason for merriment.
sinonimi
Traduzioni
rire
risa
Lachen
gelach
risus
riso
γέλιο
riure
kenFrequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈlɑːftə/
Etimologia (Inglese)
In summary
From Middle English laughter, laghter, laȝter, from Old English hleahtor (“laughter, jubilation, derision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *klek-, *kleg- (“to shout”). Cognate with German Gelächter (“laughter, hilarity, merriment”), Danish and Norwegian latter (“laughter”), Icelandic hlátur (“laughter”). More at laugh.
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