different between cough vs linctus

English

Etymology

From Middle English coughen, coghen, from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to shout”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”). Cognate with Dutch kuchen (“to cough”), German keuchen (“to pant”), Albanian hukat (“pant, gasp”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?f/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /k??f/
• (General American) enPR: kôf, IPA^(key): /k?f/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: k?f, IPA^(key): /k?f/
• Rhymes: -?f
• Rhymes: -??f

Verb

cough (third-person singular simple present coughs, present participle coughing, simple past and past participle coughed)

1. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

2. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.

3. (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.

Derived terms

• cougher
• cough up

Translations

Noun

cough (plural coughs)

1. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

   Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.

2. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

   Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough.

3. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame.

   He was – cough – indisposed.

Synonyms

• (condition): tussis

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• gouch

English

Etymology

From Latin linctus, from ling? (“I lick (up)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??k.t?s/

Noun

linctus (plural linctuses)

1. (medicine) Any syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs.

   Synonyms: lambative, lohoch

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of ling?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?li?nk.tus/, [?li??kt??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?link.tus/, [?li?kt?us]

Participle

l?nctus (feminine l?ncta, neuter l?nctum); first/second-declension participle

1. licked

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

• Aromanian: alimtu

Noun

l?nctus m (genitive l?nct?s); fourth declension

1. a licking; the act of licking

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: linctus

References

• linctus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• linctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette