different between rattling vs rhonchus

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

rattling (comparative more rattling, superlative most rattling)

1. Lively, quick (speech, pace).
2. (dated, intensifier) good, fine.
   • I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.

Verb

rattling

1. present participle of rattle

Noun

rattling (plural rattlings)

1. rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

rattling (plural rattlings)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of ratline

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