crepitate

English

Etymology

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin crepitātus, perfect passive participle of crepitō (“to creak, rattle, clatter, crackle”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), itself a frequentative of crepō (“to creak, rattle, etc., burst or break with a noise, crash”).

Verb

crepitate (third-person singular simple present crepitates, present participle crepitating, simple past and past participle crepitated)

1. To crackle, to make a crackling sound.
   1. (medicine) to crackle, as crepitant lungs do, as some arthritic joints may do, or as some fractured bones may do.
   2. (medicine, obsolescent) to flatulate.

Derived terms

terms derived from crepitate (verb)

• crepitant
• crepitation

Translations

to crackle

• Bulgarian: пращя (bg) (praštja), пукам (bg) (pukam)
• Czech: praskat (cs)
• Māori: toē, patatō
• Portuguese: crepitar (pt)
• Russian: треща́ть (ru) (treščátʹ), тре́снуть (ru) (trésnutʹ), потре́скивать (ru) (potréskivatʹ)

Further reading

• “crepitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “crepitate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “crepitate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

crepitate

1. inflection of crepitare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

crepitate f pl

1. feminine plural of crepitato

Anagrams

• precettai, precitate

Latin

Verb

crepitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of crepitō

Spanish

Verb

crepitate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of crepitar combined with te