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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fremitus.
Pronunciation
Noun
fremitus
- A vibration which is perceptible on palpation or auscultation.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From fremō (“to murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, roar”) + -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).
Pronunciation
Noun
fremitus m (genitive fremitūs); fourth declension
- an angry murmur, humming
- a dull roaring sound, loud noise, resounding noise
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.19.12:
- Sīcut fremitus leōnis ita, et rēgis īra: et sīcut rōs super herbam ita hilaritās eius.
- As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.
(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “fremitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fremitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fremitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.