stertor

English

Etymology

From Latin stertō (“I snore”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɝtɚ/, /ˈstɝtoɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɜːtə/, /ˈstɜːtɔː/

Noun

stertor (countable and uncountable, plural stertors)

1. (biology, medicine) The act of snoring, especially heavy snoring.
2. (biology, medicine) A snoring sound, as for example even during wakefulness in infants with breathing difficulties.

   stertorous respirations

Related terms

• stertorous
• stertorously

Translations

act of heavy snoring

• Bulgarian: хъркане n (hǎrkane)
• Finnish: kuorsaus (fi)

heavy snoring sound

• Finnish: kuorsaus (fi)
• Spanish: esteror

Anagrams

• Roterts, Rotters, retorts, rotters

French

Noun

stertor m (plural stertors)

1. stertor

Further reading

• “stertor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈster.tor/, [ˈs̠t̪ɛrt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈster.tor/, [ˈst̪ɛrt̪or]

Noun

stertor m (genitive stertōris); third declension

1. medieval spelling of strātor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stertor	stertōrēs
genitive	stertōris	stertōrum
dative	stertōrī	stertōribus
accusative	stertōrem	stertōrēs
ablative	stertōre	stertōribus
vocative	stertor	stertōrēs

References

• stertor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Verb

stertor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of stertō