halitus

English

Etymology

Latin halitus

Noun

halitus (plural halituses or halitus)

  1. 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.

Latin

Noun

hālitus m (genitive hālitūs); fourth declension

  1. breath, exhalation
  2. steam, vapour

Inflection

Fourth declension.

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
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