The corpus record — Latin

hālĭto

hālĭto · v. freq. a

to breathe out

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What it meant

hālĭto — Lewis & Short

hālĭto, āre, v. freq. a.halo,

I to breathe out: flammam halitantes, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 336 P. (Trag. v. 217 Vahl.).—So perh. also: Scio spiritum ejus majorem esse multo quam folles taurini halitant, Plaut. Fragm. Bacch.; cf. Ritschl in Rhein. Mus. 1846, p. 580.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.