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Latin
Etymology
From hirriō (“I snarl”) + -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).
Pronunciation
Noun
hirrītus m (genitive hirrītūs); fourth declension
- the snarling of dogs
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Further reading
- “hirritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- hirritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.