The corpus record — Latin

halitus

halitus · m

breath

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Cathemerina 3 · 4.08/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7 · 0.89/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hālĭtus — Lewis & Short

hālĭtus (alitus), ūs, m.id.,

I breath, exhalation, steam, vapor.

I Lit. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Nemeaeus leo Frendens efflavit graviter extremum halitum, his last breath, * Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: aegris faucibus exsuperat gravis halitus, Pers. 3, 88: quae (i. e. nebulae aestusque) velut halitus sursum feruntur, Lucr. 6, 478: a pulmone halitus graveolentia, i. e. stinking breath, Plin. 28, 12, 53, § 194; so, oris, id. 21, 20, 83, § 142; 28, 4, 14, § 56; cf.: artificis halitus oris, Juv. 10, 238: postero die ex ore (ebriorum) halitus cadi, fumes of wine, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 142: plumbi fornacium halitus noxius et pestilens, exhalation, fumes, id. 34, 18, 50, § 167: carbonum, Prud. stef. 5, 219: terrae, Plin. 11, 12, 12, § 31; Quint. 7, 9, 8: salis, Plin. 17, 4, 2, § 24: Averni, Val. Fl. 4, 494: solis, i. e. heat, Col. 2, 5, 2.—

II Transf., the spirit, soul, Prud. Cath. 10, 11.—

b Wind: frigidus, Claud. Rutil. 1, 105.

In the wild

halitus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.3.12
halitus Prudentius, Cathemerina 9.48
halitu Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.22.p6
halitu Tacitus, Historiae 5.8
halitus Claudian, Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1.118
halitum Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 14.59

6 of 75 attestations shown.

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.