adj
Meaning 1
Sounding like snoring or snorting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- stertorous respirations
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
stertorous
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈstɜː.təɹ.əs/
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US: /ˈstɝ.tɚ.əs/
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
of breathing having a heavy snoring sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Latin stertō (“to snore”).
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: хри́пкав (hrípkav) — Sounding like snoring
- Czech: chroptivý — Sounding like snoring
- Czech: chroptící — Sounding like snoring
- Finnish: korahteleva — Sounding like snoring
- Finnish: koriseva — Sounding like snoring
- French: stertoreux — Sounding like snoring
- German: röchelnd — Sounding like snoring
- Russian: тяжёлый (tjažólyj) — Sounding like snoring
- Russian: хрипящий (xripjaščij) — Sounding like snoring
- Russian: затруднённый (zatrudnjónnyj) — Sounding like snoring
- Russian: стерторозный (stertoroznyj) — Sounding like snoring
- Serbo-Croatian: хроптав — Sounding like snoring
- Serbo-Croatian: hroptav — Sounding like snoring
- Spanish: estertoroso — Sounding like snoring
- Ukrainian: хрипкий (xrypkyj) — Sounding like snoring
- Ukrainian: стерторозний (stertoroznyj) — Sounding like snoring