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Etymology

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From Latin strīdor (shrill or harsh sound), from strīdō (make a shrill or harsh sound).

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Noun

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stridor (countable and uncountable, plural stridors)

  1. A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.
    • 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XXVIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
      But when the tilted plank let slide its freight into the sea, a second strange human murmur was heard, blended now with another inarticulate sound proceeding from certain larger sea-fowl, whose attention having been attracted by the peculiar commotion in the water resulting from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea, flew screaming to the spot. So near the hull did they come, that the stridor or bony creak of their gaunt double-jointed pinions was audible.
  2. (medicine) A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, New York: Vintage, published 1999, page 50:
      Her breath-holding increased in duration to almost a minute; her expirations became complicated by stridor, forced retching, and forced phonations ('Oouuggh!').

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French

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Noun

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stridor m (plural stridors)

  1. (medicine) stridor

Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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From strīdō (I make a shrill sound, shriek) +‎ -or.

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Noun

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strīdor m (genitive strīdōris); third declension

  1. A harsh, shrill, hissing, grating, or creaking sound

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative strīdor strīdōrēs
genitive strīdōris strīdōrum
dative strīdōrī strīdōribus
accusative strīdōrem strīdōrēs
ablative strīdōre strīdōribus
vocative strīdor strīdōrēs

Descendants

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  • Catalan: estridor
  • English: stridor
  • Italian: stridore
  • Portuguese: estridor
  • Romanian: stridor
  • Spanish: estridor

References

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  • stridor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • stridor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • stridor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • stridor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin stridor or French stridor.

Noun

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stridor n (uncountable)

  1. stridor

Declension

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singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative stridor stridorul
genitive-dative stridor stridorului
vocative stridorule
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inspiration 1
Note 1