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Is risus a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word risus is a Scrabble US word. The word risus is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is risus a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word risus is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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Is risus a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word risus is a Words With Friends word. The word risus is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

RISUS,

4-letter words (2 found)

SIRS,SRIS,

3-letter words (6 found)

SIR,SIS,SRI,SUI,SUR,SUS,

2-letter words (4 found)

IS,SI,UR,US,

You can make 13 words from risus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of risus

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Definitions and meaning of risus

risus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of rīdeō (“laugh”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈriː.sus/, [ˈriːs̠ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈri.sus/, [ˈriːs̬us]

Participle

rīsus (feminine rīsa, neuter rīsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. laughed at, ridiculed, mocked, having been ridiculed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

rīsus m (genitive rīsūs); fourth declension

  1. laughter, laughing
    Antonym: flētus
  2. mockery, jest
  3. practical joke, sport
  4. smile

Usage notes

  • Often used with "movere" (risum movere) to mean "make [someone] laugh".

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

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Descendants

References

  • “risus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “risus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • risus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • risus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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