subrident

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin subrīdēns, subrīdentem (“smiling”), from Latin subrīdeō (“to smile”).

Adjective

subrident (comparative more subrident, superlative most subrident)

1. (literary, rare) Characterized by a smile; smiling.
   • 1980, Philip Howard, Words Fail Me, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1981, →ISBN, page 44:

     In 1852 a correspondent to Notes and Queries recalled having heard many years before (as usual from somebody whose name he had forgotten) that the Cheshire Cat owed its origin to the unhappy attempts of a sign-painter of that county to represent a lion rampant, which was the crest of an influential family, on the sign-boards of many of the inns. The lion was presumably depicted heraldically subrident.

Related terms

• subride
• subrision
• subrisive
• subrisory

 

Latin

Verb

subrīdent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of subrīdeō