halitus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin halitus. === Noun === halitus (plural halituses or halitus) A vapour. == Latin == === Etymology === From hālō +‎ -tus. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “hālō + -tus → hālātus”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈha.lɪ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.li.tus] === Noun === hālitus m (genitive hālitūs); fourth declension breath, exhalation Synonyms: spīritus, anima, spīrātiō (by extension) bad breath steam, vapour, fume Synonym: fumus ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: alito → Spanish: hálito === References === “halitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “halitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “halitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.