different between susurrant vs susurrus

English

Etymology

From Latin susurrans, p.pr. of susurrare (“to whisper”).

Adjective

susurrant (comparative more susurrant, superlative most susurrant)

1. (of speech or sound) Murmured, soft.

   She could make out susurrant voices behind the door.

French

Verb

susurrant

1. present participle of susurrer

Latin

Verb

susurrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of susurr?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin susurrus (“a humming, whispering”); reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

susurrus (plural susurruses)

1. (literary) A whispering or rustling sound; a murmur.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)

   • The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches.

Related terms

• insusurration
• susurrant, susurrous
• susurrate
• susurration

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). See also Latin surdus, Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian ???????? (svirél?, “a pipe, reed”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /su?sur.rus/, [s???s??r??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /su?sur.rus/, [su?s?ur?us]

Noun

susurrus m (genitive susurr?); second declension

1. whisper
2. murmur

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: sussurro
• Spanish: susurro
• Romanian: susur

References

• susurrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• susurrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• susurrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette