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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• ridiculous:
      1. 1. rīdĭcŭlus (prop. laughable, which is its usual sense): it is r. to suppose, r. est putare, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 18, 59: a r. poem, r. poëma, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 238: poverty makes men r., paupertas r. homines facit, Juv. 3, 153: Quint.
      2. 2. perrīdĭcŭlus (very r.): a very r. system, p. doctrina, Cic. de Or. 2, 19, 77.
      3. 3. dērīdĭcŭlus: the accusation is r., crimen est d., Liv. 39, 26.
      4. 4. sŭbabsurdus (acc. to Quint. 6, 3, 23, a Cic. word): Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 274: v. absurd. (N.B.--Though the adj. subridiculus does not occur, the adv. does.)
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• RIDICULOUS
ridiculus: ridendus (Cic.); deridiculus: ridicularis (Plaut.): extremely ridiculous, perridiculus (Cic.): a ridiculous fellow, homo ridiculus (Cic.); deridiculus (Plaut.); caput ridiculum (Terentianus); homo perridiculus (Cic.). A ridiculous thing, res ridicula: to be ridiculous, risum movere, concitare. To make anybody ridiculous, ridiculum aliquem facere (Juv.); risui, ludibrio aliquem exponere: to make one’s self ridiculous ridendum, irridendum se proponere; risui, irrisui se exponere; also, risum dare (Hor.) or praebere (Justinus).