halitus
English
Etymology
Noun
halitus (plural halituses or halitus)
- A vapour.
- 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase, chapter 1
- 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.
- 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase, chapter 1
Latin
Noun
hālitus m (genitive hālitūs); fourth declension
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
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.