different between susurrate vs susurrus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin susurr?, susurr?tus.

Verb

susurrate (third-person singular simple present susurrates, present participle susurrating, simple past and past participle susurrated)

1. to whisper

Derived terms

• susurration

Latin

Verb

susurr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of susurr?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin susurrus (“a humming, whispering”); reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?su?.s?.??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?su.s?.??s/, /s??s??.?s/

Noun

susurrus (plural susurruses)

1. (literary) A whispering or rustling sound; a murmur.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)

   • The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches.

Related terms

• insusurration
• susurrant, susurrous
• susurrate
• susurration

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). See also Latin surdus, Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian ???????? (svirél?, “a pipe, reed”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /su?sur.rus/, [s???s??r??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /su?sur.rus/, [su?s?ur?us]

Noun

susurrus m (genitive susurr?); second declension

1. whisper
2. murmur

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: sussurro
• Spanish: susurro
• Romanian: susur

References

• susurrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• susurrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• susurrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette