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flatulence
English
Etymology
From French flatulence, ultimately from Latin fl? (“breathe, blow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?flæt???l?ns/
- Hyphenation: flat?u?lence
- Rhymes: -æt??l?ns
Noun
flatulence (countable and uncountable, plural flatulences)
- The state of having gas, often smelly, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.
- The release of such gas; breaking wind.
Usage notes
A formal Latinate term, used in medical and scientific discourse, but also euphemistically to avoid crude terms such as fart. Compare excrement.
Coordinate terms
- queef
Derived terms
- vaginal flatulence
Related terms
- See also Thesaurus:flatulence
- afflatus
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fla.ty.l??s/
Noun
flatulence f (plural flatulences)
- flatulence
Further reading
- “flatulence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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afflatus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin affl?tus (“a breath, an act of breathing out or breathing upon; breeze, gust of air, vapour, wind; inspiration”), from affl?re (from affl? (“to blow, to breathe”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + fl? (“to blow, to breathe”)) + -tus (“suffix producing an action noun from a verb”). The related Latin word adfl?t? was first used in the “inspiration” sense by the Roman orator and philosopher Cicero (106–43 B.C.E.) in De Natura Deorum (The Nature of the Gods, 44 B.C.E.), book II, section 167.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??fle?t?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??fle?t?s/, /-??s/
- Rhymes: -e?t?s
- Hyphenation: af?fla?tus
Noun
afflatus (plural afflatuses)
- A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to divine influence.
Synonyms
- afflation
Related terms
- afflate
- deflate, deflation
- flatulence, flatus
- inflate, inflation
Translations
References
Further reading
- afflatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of affl? (“I blow, breathe (on or towards)”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?af.fla.tus/, [?äf???ät??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?af.fla.tus/, [??f?l?t?us]
Noun
affl?tus m (genitive affl?t?s); fourth declension
- breath (directed upon some object)
- (poetry, religion) afflation (from an inspiring spirit from an unknown source in Cicero; from a divine spirit in a pagan context or from the Holy Spirit in later Christian contexts)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
Participle
affl?tus (feminine affl?ta, neuter affl?tum); first/second-declension participle
- blown, breathed on, having been blown or breathed on
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- afflatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- afflatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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