crepitus Latin · revision 32569

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *ḱrep-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkrɛ.pɪ.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkrɛː.pi.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''crepitus''' ''m'' (genitive crepitūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|crepō|-tus|t1=to rattle, creak]], an action noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|crepō]] to [[itc-pro|*krepa-]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱrep-|t=to rattle, crackle]], an aorist root.^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[hit|karp(ii̯e/a)-tta(ri)|t=to be angry, rage]] and [[sa|कृपते|tr=kr̥pate|t=to wean, mourn]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan, Köbler and the TLL date it from Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) Plautus has the creak of door hinges.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a short sharp sound or a run of them, creaking, cracking, clashing, the crackling of flames.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it in good prose: Lucretius has the flapping of canvas, Varro the noise of bridles, Cicero the chattering of teeth.^(Lewis & Short 1879) With ⟨digitōrum⟩ it is the snapping of fingers, as in Martial and Quintilian.^(OLD 2012) It is also a fart: Plautus threatens to knock a barley-fed one out of each of them.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein contrasts it, a single or repeated sharp sound, with [[fragor]], a crash, and [[strepitus]], a loud din.^(Döderlein 1874) English took it as [[m|en|crepitus]] about 1820.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of creaking hinges and of a fart.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of flapping canvas.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of snapping fingers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1820 – English borrows it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A short sharp sound, a [[m|en|rattling]], creaking, clashing; the crackling of flames.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''crepitus digitōrum'', a snapping of the fingers.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''crepitus ventris'', a [[m|en|fart]], [[m|en|flatulence]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' An explosion.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[crepitāculum]]

+ * [[crepitō]]

+ * [[crepō]]

+ * [[crepundia]]

+ * [[en|crepitus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}