latration
/ləˈtreɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with ‘virus’, the ‘rabid animal’, and the ‘latration’ of the patient"
- "But for this barrier, the theological Cerberus would find himself turning so few passengers from its gate, that he would soon, himself, weary of his wearisome latrations."
- "What then must have been the effect upon the eminent philologist of the midnight latrations of Fernando Wood's yellow dog?"
- "And rather a latration of yaps and yowls as a harum-scarum of dogs swept past."
Etymology
From Latin lātrātio, from lātrāre (“to bark”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to latrate + -ion.
Origin
- Source language: Latin