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halituous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hal-i-tu-ous
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Latin halitus (“breath, vapor”), from halare (“to breathe”): compare French halitueux.

Origin

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Usage

Inflected Forms

more halituous (comparative) most halituous (superlative)

Questions

What does halituous mean?
Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
Where does halituous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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