crepitate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin crepitātus, perfect passive participle of crepitō (“to creak, rattle, clatter, crackle”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), itself a frequentative of crepō (“to creak, rattle, etc., burst or break with a noise, crash”).

crepitate (third-person singular simple present crepitates, present participle crepitating, simple past and past participle crepitated)

1. To crackle, to make a crackling sound.
   1. (medicine) to crackle, as crepitant lungs do, as some arthritic joints may do, or as some fractured bones may do.
   2. (medicine, obsolescent) to flatulate.

• “crepitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “crepitate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “crepitate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

crepitate

1. inflection of crepitare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

crepitate f pl

1. feminine plural of crepitato

• precettai, precitate

crepitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of crepitō

crepitate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of crepitar combined with te