hirritus

Latin

Alternative forms

• irritus

Etymology

From hirriō (“I snarl”) +‎ -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hirˈriː.tus/, [hɪrˈriːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /irˈri.tus/, [irˈriːt̪us]

Noun

hirrītus m (genitive hirrītūs); fourth declension

1. the snarling of dogs

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hirrītus	hirrītūs
genitive	hirrītūs	hirrītuum
dative	hirrītuī	hirrītibus
accusative	hirrītum	hirrītūs
ablative	hirrītū	hirrītibus
vocative	hirrītus	hirrītūs

Further reading

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