fremitus

Borrowed from Latin fremitus.

• enPR: frĕm'ĭ-təs

fremitus

1. A vibration which is perceptible on palpation or auscultation.

• fumiters

From fremō (“to murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, roar”) + -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɛ.mɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɛː.mi.tus]

fremitus m (genitive fremitūs); fourth declension

1. an angry murmur, humming
2. a dull roaring sound, loud noise, resounding noise
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.19.12:

     Sīcut fremitus leōnis ita, et rēgis īra: et sīcut rōs super herbam ita hilaritās eius.

     As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

Fourth-declension noun.

• murmur

• fremitō

• “fremitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fremitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fremitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.