different between crowing vs stridor

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?o???/

Verb

crowing

1. present participle of crow

Noun

crowing (plural crowings)

1. A cry of joy or pleasure.
   • 1865, Methodist Episcopal Church, Ladies' Repository

     The tiny mouth is uttering the most satisfied of crowings, and her eyes have that pure, soft expression never seen except in baby eyes.

English

Etymology

From Latin str?dor (“shrill or harsh sound”), from str?d? (“make a shrill or harsh sound”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?st??j???/

Noun

stridor (countable and uncountable, plural stridors)

1. A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.
   • 1891, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Chapter 28.

     But when the tilted plank let slide its freight into the sea, a second strange human murmur was heard, blended now with another inarticulate sound proceeding from certain larger sea-fowl, whose attention having been attracted by the peculiar commotion in the water resulting from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea, flew screaming to the spot. So near the hull did they come, that the stridor or bony creak of their gaunt double-jointed pinions was audible.

2. (medicine) A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, New York: Vintage, 1999, p. 50,

     Her breath-holding increased in duration to almost a minute; her expirations became complicated by stridor, forced retching, and forced phonations ('Oouuggh!').

Derived terms

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stridor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?stri?.dor/, [?s?(t?)?i?d??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?stri.dor/, [?st??i?d??r]

Noun

str?dor m (genitive str?d?ris); third declension

1. A harsh, shrill, hissing, grating, or creaking sound

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: estridor
• Italian: stridore
• Portuguese: estridor
• Spanish: estridor

References

• stridor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stridor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stridor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stridor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette