halitus

English

Etymology

From Latin halitus.

Noun

halitus (plural halituses or halitus)

  1. 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

Etymology

From hālō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

Noun

hālitus m (genitive hālitūs); fourth declension

  1. breath, exhalation
  2. steam, vapour

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative hālitus hālitūs
genitive hālitūs hālituum
dative hālituī hālitibus
accusative hālitum hālitūs
ablative hālitū hālitibus
vocative hālitus hālitūs

Descendants

  • Italian: alito
  • Spanish: hálito

References

  • “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.
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