latrate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lātrātus (“barked”) taken as a verb via English -ate, from Latin lātrāre (“to bark”). Compare Spanish ladrar (“to bark”). First attested in 1623, originally seemingly as a ghost word.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
latrate (third-person singular simple present latrates, present participle latrating, simple past and past participle latrated)
- (rare) To bark; to make doglike noises.
- [1623, Henry Cockeram, The English Dictionarie Of 1623, New York: Huntington Press, published 1930, s.v., page 110:
- Latrate, to barke like a dog.]
- 1928, Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends[1], page 145:
- I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously at a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.
- 1931, Harry Kemp, Love Among the Cape Enders[2], page 91:
- […] Rip ought to know there wasn’t a beggar’s chance of catching one of the birds; all the silly, latrating dogs thus showed off.
- 1972, Max Wylie, 400 Miles from Harlem: Courts, Crime, and Correction[3], page 201:
- With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.
Related terms edit
References edit
- “latrate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1902.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “†latrate, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- “latrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
latrate
- inflection of latrare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
latrate f pl
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laːˈtraː.te/, [ɫ̪äːˈt̪räːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈtra.te/, [läˈt̪räːt̪e]
Participle edit
lātrāte