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English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
rugitus (uncountable)
- (medicine) Borborygmus; intestinal rumbling.
Latin
Etymology
From rū̆giō (“to roar, bray”) + -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).
Pronunciation
Noun
rū̆gītus m (genitive rū̆gītūs); fourth declension
- braying (of a donkey)
- roaring
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- North-Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- “rugitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rugitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.