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quirrīto

quirrīto · v. n

to grunt

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What it meant

1. quirrīto — Lewis & Short

quirrīto, āre, v. n., to utter the natural sound of the boar,

I to grunt: quirritant verres, Auct Carm. Philom. 55.

2. quirritö — Walde–Hofmann

quirritö, -äre , Naturlaut des Ebers“ (Suet. frg. 161 p. 249, 2): schallnachahmend, vgl. rom. *guiís „quietschen“ (Meyer-Lübke n. 69672), unser quietechen, quieken und kei als Nachahmung des Quietschens der Schweine (Walde LEW.? 636, Immisch Cl. 13, 36 f£). 410 quis, quid. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. quirritö, p. 1315]

Where it came from

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

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