halitus

English

Etymology

From Latin halitus.

Noun

halitus (plural halituses or halitus)

1. A vapour.
   • 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase:

     She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.

Latin

Etymology

From hālō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈha.li.tus/, [ˈhälʲɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.tus/, [ˈäːlit̪us]

Noun

hālitus m (genitive hālitūs); fourth declension

1. breath, exhalation
2. steam, vapour

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hālitus	hālitūs
genitive	hālitūs	hālituum
dative	hālituī	hālitibus
accusative	hālitum	hālitūs
ablative	hālitū	hālitibus
vocative	hālitus	hālitūs

Descendants

• Italian: alito
• Spanish: hálito

References

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