sonreir

See also: sonreír

Ladino

Alternative forms

• sonriir

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish sonreir, from Vulgar Latin *subrīdīre, from Latin subrīdēre. Compare Portuguese sorrir.

Verb

sonreir (Hebrew spelling סונריאיר)

1. (intransitive) to smile (flex the lips upwards)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Oro Anahory-Librowicz, “El sheshauni meˁerra”, in Voces de Ḥaketía‎^[1]:

     Le miró extrańada y se puzo a sonreir y él tamién la sonrió; ella le dio una bentoza y él otra y, al cabo de unos días, estaban como dos tortolitos.

     She looked at him strangely and started to smile, and he smiled at her too; she gave him a suction cup, he gave her another and, after a few days, they were like two little lovebirds.

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *subrīdīre, from Latin subrīdēre. Compare Old French sorrirre.

Verb

sonreir

1. (reflexive) to smile (flex the lips upwards)

   Synonym: sonrisar

Descendants

• Ladino: sonreir, sonriir, סונריאיר
• Spanish: sonreír

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “sonreir”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 479

Spanish

Verb

sonreir

1. Obsolete spelling of sonreír.