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6-letter words (3 found)

FAULTS,FLATUS,FUTSAL,

5-letter words (10 found)

FAULT,FAUTS,FLATS,LATUS,LAUFS,SALUT,SAULT,SULFA,TALUS,TUFAS,

4-letter words (24 found)

ALFS,ALTS,ALUS,AUFS,FAST,FATS,FAUT,FLAT,FLUS,FUST,LAST,LATS,LATU,LAUF,LUST,SAFT,SALT,SAUL,SAUT,SLAT,SLUT,TAUS,TUFA,UTAS,

3-letter words (19 found)

AFT,ALF,ALS,ALT,ALU,ATS,AUF,FAS,FAT,FLU,LAS,LAT,SAL,SAT,SAU,TAS,TAU,UTA,UTS,

2-letter words (10 found)

AL,AS,AT,FA,FU,LA,ST,TA,US,UT,

You can make 66 words from flatus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of flatus

flatus

Etymology

Borrowed into English around 1660–1670; from Latin flātus (“blowing, wind, fart”), from flō (“blow”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation)1 IPA(key): /ˈfleɪtəs/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈflætəs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtəs
  • Hyphenation: fla‧tus

Noun

flatus (countable and uncountable, plural flatuses or flatus)

  1. (uncountable) Gas generated in the digestive tract.
  2. (countable) Expulsion of such gas through the anus.
    • 2006: Steve Nichols, TARO of the FOUR WORLDS, p139 →ISBN
      And as they perceived in her sundry natures, and divers properties, so they ascribed unto her divers and several names, and erected Statues and Altars unto her, according to those names, under which they then so worshipped and adored her, who (as I have already written) was with many taken and understood for Juno: and those flatus and images which were dedicated unto her, were made also many times of many other goddesses: whose properties signified them to be in nature the same as the earth, as first Lagran Madre, la Madre de i dei, Ope (Ops), Phes, Cibelle, Vesta, Ceres, Proserpina, and many others which of their places and habitations where they then remained, had their names accordingly, all signifying one & the same thing, being as I have said, the Earth, for which indeed, & from whose fruits, all things here in the world seem to receive their life and being, and are nourished & conserved by these fertileness thereof, and in this respect she was called the mother of the gods, insomuch, as all those gods of the Ancients, which were so superstitiously adored and held in that respective regardance, lived here once on the earth, and were fed and maintained by the increases, fruits, & suppeditaments thereof.
  3. (obsolete) Morbid inflation or swelling.
    • 1730 April, Jonathan Swift, "A Vindication of the Lord Carteret", in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols (Eds.), The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, Volume IX, J. Johnson &c. (1801), page 226,
      […] an incensed political surgeon, who is not in much renown for his mercy, upon great provocations: who, without waiting for his death, will flay and dissect him alive; and to the view of mankind lay open all the disordered cells of his brain, the venom of his tongue, the corruption of his heart, and spots and flatuses of his spleen: and all this for threepence.

Synonyms

  • (expulsion): fart (impolite), flatulence.
  • See also Thesaurus:flatus

Derived terms

  • flatuency

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • faults, futsal, ustalf

Esperanto

Verb

flatus

  1. conditional of flati

Latin

Etymology

From flō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈflaː.tus/, [ˈfɫ̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfla.tus/, [ˈfläːt̪us]

Noun

flātus m (genitive flātūs); fourth declension

  1. blowing, breathing, snorting
  2. breath; breeze
  3. soul (breath of life)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Related terms

  • flātō

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: fiato
    • Neapolitan: sciato
    • Sicilian: ciatu
  • Western Romance:
    • Friulian: flât
    • Piedmontese: fià
      • Montferrat Piedmontese: sciä
    • Lombard: fià, fiad
    • Ligurian: sciào
    • Romansch: flad, flo; fled; flà
  • Borrowings:
    • → English: flatus
    • → Portuguese: flato
    • → Spanish: flato

References

  • “flatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “flatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flatus 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)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

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