different between oestrus vs clicket

English

Alternative forms

• œstrus, estrus (U.S.)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oestrus (“gadfly, sting, frenzy”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (oîstros), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eys-, used to form words denoting passion; see also Latin ?ra (“anger”), Lithuanian aistra (“violent passion”), Avestan ????????????????????? (aesma, “anger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?st??s/

Noun

oestrus (plural oestruses)

1. A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly.
2. A bite or sting.
3. (archaic) A passion or frenzy.
4. A female animal's readiness to mate; heat, rut.
   • 2001, David Lodge, Thinks...

     ‘It’s the supremely human act, freely to fuck, not because you are on heat, or in oestrus, like an animal, but to give and receive pleasure.’

Derived terms

• oestrogen

Translations

Anagrams

• Souters, Strouse, estrous, ousters, rousest, sestuor, sourest, souters, toruses, tousers, trouses, trousse, tussore

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (oîstros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?oe?s.trus/, [?oe?s?t???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?es.trus/, [??st??us]

Noun

oestrus m (genitive oestr?); second declension

1. gadfly

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• as?lus
• tab?nus

Descendants

References

• oestrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oestrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oestrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• oestrus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology 1

Verb

clicket (third-person singular simple present clickets, present participle (UK) clicketting or (US) clicketing, simple past and past participle (UK) clicketted or (US) clicketed)

1. (intransitive, of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate.

   The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.

Etymology 2

Old French cliquet (“the latch of a door”). See click.

Noun

clicket (plural clickets)

1. (Britain, dialect) The knocker of a door.
2. (Britain, dialect) A latchkey.
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Merchant's Tale (modern translation)

     He carried always the small silver clicket
     With which, as pleased him, he'd unlock the gate.