ululant

English

Etymology

Derived from Latin ululāns, present participle of ululō (“I howl”).

Adjective

ululant (comparative more ululant, superlative most ululant)

1. Howling; wailing.
   • 1660, anonymous author, THE RVMP ULULANT, OR PENITENCE per FORCE
   • 1924, H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, “Imprisoned With the Pharaohs”, in Weird Tales, volume 4, number 2:

     A fiendish and ululant corpse-gurgle or death-rattle now split the very atmosphere — the charnel atmosphere poisonous with naphtha and bitumen blasts — in one concerted chorus from the ghoulish legion of hybrid blasphemies.

   • 1927, Joseph Mailliard, “Additional Breeding Records of the Spotted and Saw-whet Owls in California”, in The Condor, volume 29, page 160:

     At the Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, in some years its notes occasionally may be distinguished during intervals in the ululant chorus that resounds through the woods of a summer night — after the Bohemians have ceased ululating.

   • 2007, Rick Atkinson, The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy, page 181:

     With a rumble of hooves and an ululant war cry, the double column broke into a gallop the stone bridge just as the first German dive-bombers appeared overhead.

References

• “ululant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Catalan

Verb

ululant

1. gerund of ulular

French

Participle

ululant

1. present participle of ululer

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

ululant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ululō