laugh
Ξένοισι πιστοῖς πιστὸς ὢν γίγνου φίλος → Amicus esto fidus in fidum hospitem → Erweise treuen Fremden dich als treuer Freund
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb intransitive
burst out laughing: P. ἀνακαγχάζειν (Plato).
you have made me laugh, Socrates, though I am in no laughing mood at present: P. ὦ Σώκρατες οὐ πάνυ γέ με νῦν δὴ γελασείοντα ἐποίησας γελάσαι (Plato, Phaedo, 64B).
laugh at: P. and V. γελᾶν; (ἐπί, dat., or dat. alone), καταγελᾶν (gen.), ἐπεγγελᾶν (dat.), V. ἐγγελᾶν; (dat., or κατά, gen.), διαγελᾶν (acc.).
mock: P. and V. σκώπτειν; (acc.) (Eur., Cyclops 675 absol.), Ar. and P. χλευάζειν (acc.), ἐπισκώπτειν (acc.), V. κερτομεῖν; (acc.); see mock.
simplicity was laughed down and disappeared: P. τὸ εὔηθες… καταγελασθὲν ἠφανίσθη (Thuc. 3, 83).
without laughing: use adv., P. ἀγελαστί.
