latrate

English

Etymology

From Latin lātrātus (“barked”) taken as a verb via English -ate, from Latin lātrāre (“to bark”). Compare Spanish ladrar (“to bark”). First attested in 1623, originally seemingly as a ghost word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læˈtreɪt/, /ləˈtreɪt/, /leɪˈtreɪt/

Verb

latrate (third-person singular simple present latrates, present participle latrating, simple past and past participle latrated)

1. (rare) To bark; to make doglike noises.
   • [1623, Henry Cockeram, The English Dictionarie Of 1623, New York: Huntington Press, published 1930, s.v., page 110:

     Latrate, to barke like a dog.]

   • 1928, Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends‎^[1], page 145:

     I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously at a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.

   • 1931, Harry Kemp, Love Among the Cape Enders‎^[2], page 91:

     […] Rip ought to know there wasn’t a beggar’s chance of catching one of the birds; all the silly, latrating dogs thus showed off.

   • 1972, Max Wylie, 400 Miles from Harlem: Courts, Crime, and Correction‎^[3], page 201:

     With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.

Related terms

• (obs.) latrability
• latrant
• latration
• oblatration

References

• “latrate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1902.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “†latrate, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• “latrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈtra.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: la‧trà‧te

Etymology 1

Verb

latrate

1. inflection of latrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

latrate f pl

1. feminine plural of latrato

Anagrams

• lattare, latterà, tarlate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laːˈtraː.te/, [ɫ̪äːˈt̪räːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈtra.te/, [läˈt̪räːt̪e]

Participle

lātrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of lātrātus