căcŏphăton — Lewis & Short
căcŏphăton, i, n.,
I a union of two or more disagreeable sounds which form an equivocal word or expression, cacophony, Quint. 8, 3.
The corpus record — Latin
căcŏphăton
căcŏphăton · n
a union of two or more disagreeable sounds which form an equivocal word
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