crepitate

From Latin crepitare (“to creak, rattle, clatter, crackle”), frequentative of crepare (“to creak, rattle, etc., burst or break with a noise, crash”).

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.

• crepitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• crepitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• crepitate at OneLook Dictionary Search

crepitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of crepitare
2. second-person plural imperative of crepitare
3. feminine plural of crepitato

• precettai

crepitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of crepitō