different between breathing vs rhonchus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i?ð??/

Verb

breathing

1. present participle of breathe

Noun

breathing (countable and uncountable, plural breathings)

1. The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
2. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
3. (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1

     DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?

     CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

     LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.

     DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.

4. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.

   the breathings of the Holy Spirit

5. Aspiration; secret prayer.
   • May 24, 1683, John Tillotson, sermon preached at the funeral of Reverend Benjamin Whichcot

     earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.k?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.k?s/

Noun

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 2007, p. 699:

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

Translations

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??k?s/

Noun

rhonchus f (plural rhonchi, diminutive rhonchuske n)

1. rhonchus

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Roman physician and writer on medical topics Caelius Aurelianus: borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (rhónkhos, “snoring, stertorous breathing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ron.k?us/, [?r??k??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ron.kus/, [?r??kus]

Noun

rhonchus m (genitive rhonch?); second declension

1. A snoring.
   1. (transferred sense) The croaking of a frog.
2. (figuratively) A sneering, sneer, jeer.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Dutch: rhonchus
• ? English: rhonchus

References

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