stertorously

stertorously

English

WOTD – 20 December 2009

Etymology

From stertorous +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstəː.təɹ.əs.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɝ.tɚ.əs.li/

Adverb

stertorously (comparative more stertorously, superlative most stertorously)

1. With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20

     The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that he had suffered some terrible injury.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.

   • 2000, Mark Gatiss, Last of the Gaderene, chapter 20

     Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.

Related terms

• stertor
• stertorous

Translations

with heavy breathing, as if snoring

Bulgarian: хрипкаво (hrípkavo) Czech: chroptivě Finnish: korahdellen (fi), koristen (fi) German: röchelnd (de)

Russian: тяжело́ (ru) (tjaželó), хрипя́ще (xripjášče), затруднённо (ru) (zatrudnjónno), стерторо́зно (stertorózno) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хроптаво Roman: hroptavo (sh)