flatus

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (uncountable) Gas generated in the digestive tract.
  2. (countable) Expulsion of such gas through the anus.
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Morbid inflation or swelling.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈfleɪtəs/
Etimologie (Engels)

Learned borrowing from Latin flātus (“blowing, wind, fart”). First attested in the 1660s–1670s.

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