halitus
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
halitus (plural halituses or halitus)
- A vapour.
- 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase:
- She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈha.li.tus/, [ˈhälʲɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.li.tus/, [ˈäːlit̪us]
Noun edit
hālitus m (genitive hālitūs); fourth declension
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | hālitus | hālitūs |
Genitive | hālitūs | hālituum |
Dative | hālituī | hālitibus |
Accusative | hālitum | hālitūs |
Ablative | hālitū | hālitibus |
Vocative | hālitus | hālitūs |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “halitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “halitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- halitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.