halitus

From Latin halitus.

halitus (plural halituses or halitus)

1. A vapour.
   • 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase:

     She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.

From hālō +‎ -tus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈha.li.tus/, [ˈhälʲɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.tus/, [ˈäːlit̪us]

hālitus m (genitive hālitūs); fourth declension

1. breath, exhalation
2. steam, vapour

Fourth-declension noun.

• Italian: alito
• Spanish: hálito

• “halitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “halitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• halitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.