barritus

Latin

Etymology

From barriō (“to make the sound of an elephant”) (present stem barrī-) +‎ -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).

Noun

barrītus m (genitive barrītūs); fourth declension

1. (Late Latin) the sound of an elephant

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	barrītus	barrītūs
genitive	barrītūs	barrītuum
dative	barrītuī	barrītibus
accusative	barrītum	barrītūs
ablative	barrītū	barrītibus
vocative	barrītus	barrītūs

References

• “barritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• barritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.