stridulate

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from stridulation. (From earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”))

Pronunciation

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Verb

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  1. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 191:
      A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage.
    • 1984, John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick, p55
      The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note.
    Synonyms: chirp, chirr

Translations

to make a noise by rubbing body parts as do crickets

Italian

Verb

stridulate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of stridulare
  2. second-person plural imperative of stridulare

Participle

stridulate

  1. feminine plural of the past participle of stridulare
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