stertorously

English

WOTD – 20 December 2009

Etymology

From stertorous +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstəː.təɹ.əs.li/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɝ.tɚ.əs.li/

Adverb

stertorously (comparative more stertorously, superlative most stertorously)

1. With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 28, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

     The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that he had suffered some terrible injury.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.

   • 2000, Mark Gatiss, chapter 20, in Last of the Gaderene:

     Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.

Related terms

• stertor
• stertorous

Translations

with heavy breathing, as if snoring

• Bulgarian: хри́пкаво (bg) (hrípkavo)
• Czech: chroptivě
• Finnish: korahdellen (fi), koristen (fi)
• German: röchelnd (de)
• Russian: тяжело́ (ru) (tjaželó), хрипя́ще (xripjášče), затруднённо (ru) (zatrudnjónno), стерторо́зно (stertorózno)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хроптаво

  Roman: hroptavo (sh)