The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromflātus“blowing, wind, fart”
- English todayflatus
Learned borrowing from Latin flātus (“blowing, wind, fart”). First attested in the 1660s–1670s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
flatus
fla·tusToday it means: Gas generated in the digestive tract. Full definition →
Latin flātus