illudo

• IPA^(key): /ilˈlu.do/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: il‧lù‧do

illudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of illudere

• inlūdō

From in- +‎ lūdō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪlˈluː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ilˈluː.do]

illūdō (present infinitive illūdere, perfect active illūsī, supine illūsum); third conjugation [with accusative (rare in sense 2) or dative; or (perhaps only once in sense 2) with in, along with ablative or accusative; also in absolute use]

1. to mock, ridicule, jeer, scoff
2. (chiefly poetic, and in post-Augustan prose) to waste away, destroy something in sport; to violate, abuse, ruin
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 5.822, (reading from a scholium by Arusianus Messius (Grammatici latini, VII, 479-480), otherwise corrected as in vītam or vītam in manuscripts):

     Dum studeō obsequī tibi, paene inlūsī in vītā fīliae.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “illudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “illudo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to insult a person's dignity: auctoritati, dignitati alicuius illudere
    
  • to make sport of, rally a person: illudere alicui or in aliquem (more rarely aliquem)