Translingual

Proper noun

Oestrus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Oestridae – the gadflies.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Insecta - class; Diptera - order; Brachycera - suborder; Muscomorpha - infraorder; Schizophora - section; Calyptrata - subsection; Oestroidea - superfamily; Oestridae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Oestrus ovis

English

Alternative forms

• œstrus, estrus (U.S.)

Noun

oestrus ‎(plural oestruses)

1. A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly.
2. A bite or sting.
3. (archaic) A passion or frenzy.
4. A female animal's readiness to mate; heat, rut.
   • 2001, David Lodge, Thinks...

     ‘It’s the supremely human act, freely to ****, not because you are on heat, or in oestrus, like an animal, but to give and receive pleasure.’

Translations

Anagrams

• estrous, ousters, sourest, souters, toruses, tousers, tussore

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἶστρος ‎(oîstros).

Noun

oestrus

1. gadfly

Descendants

References

• oestrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oestrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “oestrus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• oestrus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers