flatus

Etymology
Borrowed into English around 1660–1670; from, from.

Pronunciation

 * 1

Noun

 * 1)  Gas generated in the digestive tract.
 * 2)  Expulsion of such gas through the anus.
 * 3) * 2006: Steve Nichols, T ARO of the F OUR W ORLDS , p139 ISBN 1874603073
 * And as they perceived in her sundry natures, and divers properties, so they ascribed unto her divers and several names, and erected Statues and Altars unto her, according to those names, under which they then so worshipped and adored her, who (as I have already written) was with many taken and understood for Juno: and those flatus and images which were dedicated unto her, were made also many times of many other goddesses: whose properties signified them to be in nature the same as the earth, as first Lagran Madre, la Madre de i dei, Ope (Ops), Phes, Cibelle, Vesta, Ceres, Proserpina, and many others which of their places and habitations where they then remained, had their names accordingly, all signifying one & the same thing, being as I have said, the Earth, for which indeed, & from whose fruits, all things here in the world seem to receive their life and being, and are nourished & conserved by these fertileness thereof, and in this respect she was called the mother of the gods, insomuch, as all those gods of the Ancients, which were so superstitiously adored and held in that respective regardance, lived here once on the earth, and were fed and maintained by the increases, fruits, & suppeditaments thereof.
 * 1)  Morbid inflation or swelling.
 * 2) * 1730 April, Jonathan Swift, "A Vindication of the Lord Carteret", in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols (Eds.), The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, Volume IX, J. Johnson &amp;c. (1801), page 226,
 * […] an incensed political surgeon, who is not in much renown for his mercy, upon great provocations: who, without waiting for his death, will flay and dissect him alive; and to the view of mankind lay open all the disordered cells of his brain, the venom of his tongue, the corruption of his heart, and spots and flatuses of his spleen: and all this for threepence.
 * 1) * 1730 April, Jonathan Swift, "A Vindication of the Lord Carteret", in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols (Eds.), The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, Volume IX, J. Johnson &amp;c. (1801), page 226,
 * […] an incensed political surgeon, who is not in much renown for his mercy, upon great provocations: who, without waiting for his death, will flay and dissect him alive; and to the view of mankind lay open all the disordered cells of his brain, the venom of his tongue, the corruption of his heart, and spots and flatuses of his spleen: and all this for threepence.

Synonyms

 * , flatulence.
 * See also Thesaurus:flatus

Translations

 * Bashkir: уҫырыҡ
 * Czech: větry
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: یل
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: flatulans, flatus


 * Bashkir: уҫырыу
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Interlingua: flato, pedito
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Malay:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: flatulans, flatus

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) blowing, breathing, snorting
 * 2) breath; breeze
 * 3) soul (breath of life)

Descendants

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 * Western Romance:
 * Montferrat
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