latration
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin lātrātio, from lātrāre (“to bark”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to latrate + -tion.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
latration (plural latrations)
- (now rare) Barking, an instance of barking.
- 1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 23, page 194:
- If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with ‘virus’, the ‘rabid animal’, and the ‘latration’ of the patient
- 1835, Christian Examiner:
- But for this barrier, the theological Cerberus would find himself turning so few passengers from its gate, that he would soon, himself, weary of his wearisome latrations.
- 1925, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Notes and anecdotes of many years, page 75:
- What then must have been the effect upon the eminent philologist of the midnight latrations of Fernando Wood's yellow dog?
- 2001, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys:
- And rather a latration of yaps and yowls as a harum-scarum of dogs swept past.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “latration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “latration, n.”, in OED Online
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