BANTER Copy link • BANTER 1. v. ludibrio sibi habere aliquem; aliquem irridere (to laugh at): aliquem deridere (to mock): aliquem cavillari (mock in a bantering, ironical way): to banter any body with bitter irony, acerbis facetiis aliquem irridere: anybody about anything, aliquid ludibrio habere; aliquid irridere or deridere: jocari in aliquid; aliquid cavillari: per ludibrium exprobrare alicui aliquid. 2. s. irrisio (derisus, post-Augustan; derisio is very late, Arnobius, Lactantius): cavillatio; ludibrium; ludus; jocus: to be the subject of anybody’s banter, alicui ludibrio esse.