different between stridulate vs stridulator

English

Etymology

Back-formation from stridulation. (From earlier term stridulous; from Latin str?dulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from str?d? (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”))

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /st??dj??le??(?)n/

Verb

stridulate (third-person singular simple present stridulates, present participle stridulating, simple past and past participle stridulated)

1. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 191:

     A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage.

   • 1984, John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick, p55

     The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note.

   Synonyms: chirp, chirr

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Italian

Verb

stridulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of stridulare
2. second-person plural imperative of stridulare

Participle

stridulate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of stridulare

English

Etymology

stridulate +? -or

Noun

stridulator (plural stridulators)

1. That which stridulates.
   • 1871, Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

     Scolytus has lately been described by Mr. Algen as a stridulator in the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine

Anagrams

• rostratulid