English
halitus
Halitus comes from Latin halitus ‘breath, exhalation’, and goes back to hālō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhālō‘to breathe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhalitus‘breath, exhalation’
- Englishearliest quotation 1932same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhālō‘to breathe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhalitus‘breath, exhalation’
- Englishearliest quotation 1932same form
Earliest quotation: 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers: “She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- ‘to breathe’
and, animal, anime, asthma, unanimous, animate, animosity, animator, anima, anemone, animus, prana, onde, 18 more
through Latin hālō ‘to breathe’
Today it means
noun A vapour.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin hālō / halitus