rhonchus

Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus),^[1] of imitative origin.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒŋ.kəs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑŋ.kəs/

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rhonchus (plural rhonchi)

1. (medicine) A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 699:

     “You have poisoned yourself again!” Humfried emitted an alarming rhonchus.

• rhonchial
• sibilant rhonchus

Borrowed from Latin rhonchus, from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔŋkʏs/

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rhonchus f (plural rhonchi, no diminutive)

1. (medicine) rhonchus

• roncus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos, “snoring, stertorous breathing”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrʰɔŋ.kʰʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔŋ.kus]

rhonchus m (genitive rhonchī); second declension

1. a snoring
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 3.82.29–31:

     Septunce multo deinde perditus stertit:
     Nos accubamus et, silentium rhonchis
     Praestare iussi, nutibus propinamus.

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   1. (transferred senses) the croaking of a frog

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   2. (figurative) a sneering, sneer, jeer

      Synonym: illūsiō

      • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 1.3.5–6:

        Maiores nusquam rhonchi: iuvenesque senesque
        Et pueri nasum rhinocerotis habent.

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Second-declension noun.

• stertō

• “rhonchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press