stertor

From Latin stertō (“I snore”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɝtɚ/, /ˈstɝtoɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɜːtə/, /ˈstɜːtɔː/

stertor (countable and uncountable, plural stertors)

1. (biology, medicine) The act of snoring, especially heavy snoring.
2. (biology, medicine) A snoring sound, as for example even during wakefulness in infants with breathing difficulties.

   stertorous respirations

• stertorous
• stertorously

• Roterts, Rotters, retorts, rotters

stertor m (plural stertors)

1. stertor

• “stertor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈster.tor/, [ˈs̠t̪ɛrt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈster.tor/, [ˈst̪ɛrt̪or]

stertor m (genitive stertōris); third declension

1. medieval spelling of strātor

Third-declension noun.

• stertor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

stertor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of stertō