crepitus: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>crĕpĭtus</b>: ūs, m. [[crepo]],<br /><b>I</b> a rattling, creaking, clattering, [[clashing]], rustling, a [[noise]], etc. (in [[good]] [[prose]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: cardinum, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 1; cf. claustrorum ([[with]] [[sonitus]]), id. ib. 1, 3, 47: carbasi, Lucr. 6, 110: e motu frenorum, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 12: dentium, a [[chattering]], Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19: [[pedum]], id. Top. 12, 52: armorum, Liv. 25, 6, 21; 38, 17, 5: alarum (anserum). id. 5, 47, 4: plagarum, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 62, § 162: inlisae [[manus]] umeris, Sen. Ep. 56, 1: tibiarum et scabellorum, Suet. Calig. 54: arboris, Plin. 10, 18, 20, § 40: imbrium, a pattering, id. 12, 1, 5, § 10: [[sonitus]], [[tonitrus]], a [[crash]], Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 10: digitorum, a snapping of the fingers, as the [[signal]] of a [[command]] (cf. [[crepo]] and [[concrepo]]), Mart. 14, 119.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.: [[crepitus]] (sc. ventris), a breaking [[wind]] [[with]] [[noise]], = [[πορδή]] (diff. from [[flatus]], [[without]] [[noise]]), Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 16; Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 5: Sen. Ep. 91, 19; Plin. 27, 12, 87, § 110 al.; [[with]] [[flatus]], Suet. Claud. 32.