The story
- Latin · derived fromsubrīdeō“to smile”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromsubrīdēns, subrīdentem“smiling”
- English todaysubrident
Borrowed from Late Latin subrīdēns, subrīdentem (“smiling”), from Latin subrīdeō (“to smile”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsubrīdeō all →
subrisionsubrisive
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.