Cachinnate

[Rollercoaster1]

The word 'Cachinnate' means - to laugh loudly or immoderately.

It's an intransitive verb. As we use the preposition 'at' with verbs like: smile, laugh, smirk, I tried to find example sentences on the internet but couldn't find one in which the word was followed by the preposition 'at'.

Is it correct to say 'He cachinnated at the poor boy'?

 

[teechar]

The dictionary lists it as verb [rare].
Therefore, unless you have a particular reason/need for learning it, I would advise you to save your precious memory cells and not bother with it.

 

[Rollercoaster1]

The dictionary lists it as verb [rare].
Therefore, unless you have a particular reason/need for learning it, I would advise you to save your precious memory cells and not bother with it.

'The dictionary' what dictionary?
I mostly use 'Dictionary.com'. I looked up the word, it doesn't say it's (cachinnate) rare.

 

[teechar]

'The dictionary' what dictionary?

Good question!
I mostly use the Oxford Dictionary.
You can also use this portal, which has a large collections of online dictionaries.

I mostly use 'Dictionary.com'.

I only rarely use that.

I looked up the word, it doesn't say it's (cachinnate) rare.

That's a comma splice error. Do you know how to fix it?

 

[Rover_KE]

Click here to see how rare it is.

I've already forgotten it—so should you.

 

[probus]

I agree completely. In 70 years of reading widely I've never run across it. Looking at your thread title I thought it must be Italian.

Forget about it.

As a matter of curiosity, where did you find it, only in the dictionary or somewhere else?

 

[Rover_KE]

There's no point in prolonging this thread. I'm closing it.

EDIT: Cross-posted, so I'm reopening it to let Rollercoaster answer probus's question.

 

[Rollercoaster1]

Good question!
I mostly use the Oxford Dictionary.
You can also use this portal, which has a large collections of online dictionaries.


I only rarely use that.


That's a comma splice error. Do you know how to fix it?

Nope. I think the comma wasn't necessary there, right?

 

[Rollercoaster1]

Click here to see how rare it is.

I've already forgotten it—so should you.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/gra...othing=3&share=&direct_url=t1;,cachinnate;,c0

 

[Rollercoaster1]

I agree completely. In 70 years of reading widely I've never run across it. Looking at your thread title I thought it must be Italian.

Forget about it.

As a matter of curiosity, where did you find it, only in the dictionary or somewhere else?

In 'Dictionary.com'.

 

[kilroy65]

https://books.google.com/ngrams/gra...othing=3&share=&direct_url=t1;,cachinnate;,c0

Bear in mind that the vertical axis of the Ngram Viewer adjusts itself to make the data curve visible. Take a closer look at the y-axis of the ngram and you'll see that the 2008 value is 0.000000072%, which is close to zero.