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roncus

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Latin

Noun

roncus m (genitive roncī); second declension

  1. alternative form of rhonchus: a croak, croaking
    • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses:
      [] , et nunc senex ille dolium innatans vini sui adventores pristinos in faece submissus officiosis roncis raucus appellat.
      and now the poor wretch swimming in one of his own pipes of wine, and being well nigh drowned in the dregs, doth cry and call with croakings continually for his old guests and acquaintance that pass by.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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