crepitus

Borrowed from Latin crepitus.

crepitus (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints.

• crepitation

• crepitous

• cuprites, pictures, piecrust

From crepō (“rattle, creak”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.pi.tus/, [ˈkrɛpɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.pi.tus/, [ˈkrɛːpit̪us]

crepitus m (genitive crepitūs); fourth declension

1. rattling, creaking, rustling, clattering

   Crepitus digitorum.

   Snapping of the fingers.

Fourth-declension noun.

• crepitāculum
• crepitō
• crepō
• crepundia

• English: crepitus
• Italian: crepito
• Romanian: crăpăt
• Spanish: crépito

• “crepitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “crepitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crepitus 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)
• crepitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.