halitus

English

Etymology

Latin halitus

Noun

halitus (plural halituses or halitus)

A vapour.
- 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase:
  She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.

Latin

Etymology

From hālō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈha.li.tus/, [ˈhälʲɪt̪ʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.tus/, [ˈäːlit̪us]

Noun

hālitus m (genitive hālitūs); fourth declension

breath, exhalation
steam, vapour

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hālitus	hālitūs
Genitive	hālitūs	hālituum
Dative	hālituī	hālitibus
Accusative	hālitum	hālitūs
Ablative	hālitū	hālitibus
Vocative	hālitus	hālitūs

Descendants

Italian: alito
Spanish: hálito

References

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

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