sussurrare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to whisper
  2. (intransitive) to rustle, to murmur
  3. (intransitive) to badmouth, to slander (secretly, behind one's back)

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Hyphenated as
sus‧sur‧rà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sus.surˈra.re/
Etymology

Derived from Latin susurrāre (“to hum, buzz, murmur, mutter, whisper”).

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