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gaping
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?p??/
- Rhymes: -e?p??
Etymology 1
From Middle English gaping, gapynge, variants of Middle English gapand, gapande, equivalent to gape +? -ing.
Verb
gaping
- present participle of gape
Adjective
gaping (comparative more gaping, superlative most gaping)
- Wide open.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English gapynge, equivalent to gape +? -ing.
Noun
gaping (plural gapings)
- The act of one who gapes.
- 1820, John Cooke, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases: Vol. I on Apoplexy
- M. Le Gallois considers these gapings, which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.
- 1820, John Cooke, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases: Vol. I on Apoplexy
- Something gaping; something agape.
Translations
Anagrams
- paging
gaping From the web:
rictus
English
Etymology
From Latin rictus, participle of ringor (“open the mouth wide”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k.t?s/, /???k.t?s/
Noun
rictus (plural rictus or rictuses)
- A bird's gaping mouth.
- The throat of a calyx.
- Any open-mouthed expression.
Derived terms
- rictal
Translations
Anagrams
- Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rustic
Catalan
Noun
rictus m (plural rictus)
- rictus
French
Etymology
From Latin rictus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ik.tys/
Noun
rictus m (plural rictus)
- rictus; grimace
Latin
Etymology
From ringor (“I gape, show my teeth, snarl; I am vexed”) +? -tus (action noun forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?rik.tus/, [?r?kt??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?rik.tus/, [?rikt?us]
Noun
rictus m (genitive rict?s); fourth declension
- the gaping of a mouth, as when laughing or yawning
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
- English: rictus
- French: rictus
- Portuguese: ricto
- Spanish: rictus
Anagrams
- citrus
References
- rictus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rictus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rictus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Romanian
Etymology
From French rictus, from Latin rictus.
Noun
rictus n (plural rictusuri)
- rictus
Declension
Spanish
Noun
rictus m (plural rictus)
- sneer; wince
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