sarcasmos

sarcasmos, i, m., = σαρκασμός,

• a keen or bitter jest, a taunt, gibe, sarcasm, a figure of speech, Charis. p. 247 P. (in Quint. 8, 6, 57, and Diom. p. 458 P., written as Greek).

sarcasmos, ī, m. (σαρκασμός), der beißende, bittere Spott, Charis. 276, 25. Diom. 462, 6 u. 33. Serv. Verg. Aen. 2, 547.

sarcasmos [LL < σαρκασμός], (rhet.) mockery, sarcasm. ~os est plena odio atque hostilis inrisio Bede ST 164 (cf. Gerv. Melkley AV 156: irrisio); sarchasmos est sub hoc sensu: non sumet omnia qui in presenti omnia sumere desiderat Neckam NR II 188; sarcasmos et tropico flore venustatur / sed nunc ad scematicas formas transportatur Qui majora cernitis 22; allegoria ‥ continet sub se septem species que sunt ‥ paroemia, ~os, astismos Ockham Summa III 4. 6.