rictus
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɪk.təs/, /ˈɹɪk.tʊs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪktəs
Noun
rictus (plural rictus or rictuses)
- A bird’s gaping mouth.
- The throat of a calyx.
- Any open-mouthed expression.
- His face was a rictus of sheer delight.
- 1899, Victor Hugo, translated by Paul Maurice, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo:
- Amid a thick, bristling beard, a nose like an owl's beak and a mouth whose corners were drawn by a wild-beast-like rictus were just discernible.
- 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
- A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces.
- 1986, “Deaf Forever”, performed by Motörhead:
- Sword and shield, bone and steel / Rictus grin / Deaf forever to the battle's din
- 1990, “Nothingface”, performed by Voivod:
- Valves plugs pumps to erase/ rictus from my face.
- 1993, Wolfenstein 3D, scene: after defeating Hitler (episode 3), level/area: 9:
- The absolute incarnation of evil, Adolf Hitler, lies at your feet in a pool of his own blood. His wrinkled, crimson-splattered visage still strains, a jagged-toothed rictus trying to cry out. Insane even in death. Your lips pinched in bitter victory, you kick his head off his remains and spit on his corpse.
- 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 56:
- It squinted at her through the hated light, its brow a rictus of pain and fear.
- 2008, Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, page 81:
- The apprentice watched his Master, pain twisting his features into a rictus.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Noun
rictus m (invariable)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁik.tys/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file)
Noun
rictus m (plural rictus)
Further reading
- “rictus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology
From ringor (“I gape, show my teeth, snarl; I am vexed”) + -tus (action noun forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈrik.tus/, [ˈrɪkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrik.tus/, [ˈrikt̪us]
Noun
rictus m (genitive rictūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “rictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rictus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Anagrams
Etymology
Noun
rictus n (plural rictusuri)
Declension
Declension of rictus
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Pronunciation
Noun
rictus m (plural rictus)
Further reading
- “rictus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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