latration

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/ləˈtreɪʃən//læˈtreɪʃən/

noun

Barking, an instance of barking.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounlatration (plural latrations)

plural latrations

  1. archaicBarking, an instance of barking.

    And rather a latration of yaps and yowls as a harum-scarum of dogs swept past.

    2001, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
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    If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with ‘virus’, the ‘rabid animal’, and the ‘latration’ of the patient

    1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 23, page 194

    But for this barrier, the theological Cerberus would find himself turning so few passengers from its gate, that he would soon, himself, weary of his wearisome latrations.

    1835, Christian Examiner

    What then must have been the effect upon the eminent philologist of the midnight latrations of Fernando Wood's yellow dog?

    1925, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Notes and anecdotes of many years, page 75

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Origin

  1. Latinlātrātio
  2. Englishlatration

From Latin lātrātio, from lātrāre (“to bark”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to latrate + -ion.

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