fremitus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fremitus.

Pronunciation
  • enPR: frĕm'ĭ-təs

Noun

fremitus

  1. 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

  1. an angry murmur, humming
  2. 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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fremitus fremitūs
Genitive fremitūs fremituum
Dative fremituī fremitibus
Accusative fremitum fremitūs
Ablative fremitū fremitibus
Vocative fremitus fremitūs

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Aromanian: freamit
  • English: fremitus
  • Galician: fremido
  • Italian: fremito
  • Old French: friente
  • Portuguese: frêmito
  • Romanian: freamăt
  • Spanish: frémito

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.
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