stridulation

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stridulation

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Etymology

1838, from earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

stridulation (countable and uncountable, plural stridulations)

1. A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
   • 1994, John Christopher, A Dusk of Demons:

     The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.

Related terms

• stridulate
• stridulous

Translations

chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers

Arabic: صَرِير m (ṣarīr) Bulgarian: цвърчене (bg) n (cvǎrčene) Catalan: estridulació f Dutch: stridulatie f French: stridulation (fr) f Galician: estridulación f German: Stridulation f Hebrew: צִרְצוּר m (tsirtsúr) Hungarian: striduláció Indonesian: stridulasi Latin: stridulatio f Malay: stridulasi Maori: kitā Persian: جیرجیر (fa) (jirjir) Polish: strydulacja f Portuguese: estridulação f Russian: стридуляци́я (ru) f (striduljacíja) Slovak: stridulácia f Slovene: stridulácija f Spanish: estridulación f Swedish: stridulation c

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁi.dy.la.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

stridulation f (plural stridulations)

1. stridulation

Related terms

• striduler

Further reading

• “stridulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.