rugitus

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

rugitus (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Borborygmus; intestinal rumbling.

Latin

Etymology

From rū̆giō (“to roar, bray”) +‎ -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ruːˈɡiː.tus/, [ruːˈɡiːt̪ʊs̠] or IPA^(key): /ruˈɡiː.tus/, [rʊˈɡiːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ruˈd͡ʒi.tus/, [ruˈd͡ʒiːt̪us]

Noun

rū̆gītus m (genitive rū̆gītūs); fourth declension

1. braying (of a donkey)
2. roaring

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rū̆gītus	rū̆gītūs
Genitive	rū̆gītūs	rū̆gītuum
Dative	rū̆gītuī	rū̆gītibus
Accusative	rū̆gītum	rū̆gītūs
Ablative	rū̆gītū	rū̆gītibus
Vocative	rū̆gītus	rū̆gītūs

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: ruget (dated)
• North-Italian:
  • Friulian: arût, rût
  • Piedmontese: rut
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: ruit
    • French: rut
      • → English: rut
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Gascon: ruit, arruit, arruet, arrueit
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: roido, ruido, ruiu
  • Galician: ruído
  • Portuguese: ruído
  • Spanish: ruido
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: rugit
  • → Galician: ruxido
  • → Italian: ruggito
  • → Portuguese: rugido
  • → Spanish: rugido

References

• “rugitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rugitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.