The story
- Latin · derived fromsubrīdeō“to smile”
- New Latin · borrowed fromsubrisivus“amusing”
- English todaysubrisive
Borrowed from New Latin subrisivus (“amusing”), from Latin subrīdeō (“to smile”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsubrīdeō all →
subridentsubrision
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.