rictus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɹɪk.təs/, /ˈɹɪk.tʊs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪktəs
Noun
[edit]rictus (plural rictus or rictuses)
- A bird’s gaping mouth.
- The throat of a calyx.
- Any open-mouthed expression.
- His face was a rictus of sheer delight.
- 1899, Victor Hugo, translated by Paul Maurice, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo:
- Amid a thick, bristling beard, a nose like an owl's beak and a mouth whose corners were drawn by a wild-beast-like rictus were just discernible.
- 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
- A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces.
- 1986, “Deaf Forever”, performed by Motörhead:
- Sword and shield, bone and steel / Rictus grin / Deaf forever to the battle's din
- 1990, “Nothingface”, performed by Voivod:
- Valves plugs pumps to erase/ rictus from my face.
- 1993, Wolfenstein 3D, scene: after defeating Hitler (episode 3), level/area: 9:
- The absolute incarnation of evil, Adolf Hitler, lies at your feet in a pool of his own blood. His wrinkled, crimson-splattered visage still strains, a jagged-toothed rictus trying to cry out. Insane even in death. Your lips pinched in bitter victory, you kick his head off his remains and spit on his corpse.
- 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 56:
- It squinted at her through the hated light, its brow a rictus of pain and fear.
- 2008, Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, page 81:
- The apprentice watched his Master, pain twisting his features into a rictus.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Any open-mouthed expression
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Noun
[edit]rictus m (invariable)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʁik.tys/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file)
Noun
[edit]rictus m (plural rictus)
Further reading
[edit]- “rictus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ringor (“I gape, show my teeth, snarl; I am vexed”) + -tus (action noun forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈrik.tus/, [ˈrɪkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrik.tus/, [ˈrikt̪us]
Noun
[edit]rictus m (genitive rictūs); fourth declension
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rictus | rictūs |
Genitive | rictūs | rictuum |
Dative | rictuī | rictibus |
Accusative | rictum | rictūs |
Ablative | rictū | rictibus |
Vocative | rictus | rictūs |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “rictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rictus 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)
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French rictus, borrowed from Latin rictus.
Noun
[edit]rictus n (plural rictusuri)
Declension
[edit]Declension of rictus
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) rictus | rictusul | (niște) rictusuri | rictusurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) rictus | rictusului | (unor) rictusuri | rictusurilor |
vocative | rictusule | rictusurilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rictus m (plural rictus)
Further reading
[edit]- “rictus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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