stertor

From Latin stertō (“I snore”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɝtɚ/, /ˈstɝtoɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɜːtə/, /ˈstɜːtɔː/

stertor (countable and uncountable, plural stertors)

1. (biology, medicine) The act of snoring, especially heavy snoring.
2. (biology, medicine) A snoring sound, as for example even during wakefulness in infants with breathing difficulties.

   stertorous respirations

• stertorous
• stertorously

• Roterts, Rotters, retorts, rotters

stertor m (plural stertors)

1. stertor

• “stertor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstɛr.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪ɛr.t̪or]

stertor m (genitive stertōris); third declension

1. medieval spelling of strātor

Third-declension noun.

• "stertor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

stertor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of stertō