screatus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [skreˈaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [skreˈaː.tus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of screō. ==== Participle ==== screātus (feminine screāta, neuter screātum); first/second-declension participle (of one's throat) cleared by hawking (Can we verify(+) this sense?) ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension participle. === Etymology 2 === From screō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== screātus m (genitive screātūs); fourth declension (hapax legomenon, Old Latin) a hawking, the/a clearing of one's throat ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === Further reading === “scrĕātus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scrĕātŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.