Etymology

rictus

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Latin rictus
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromrictus
  2. Latin · learned borrowing fromrictus
  3. English todayrictus

Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.