splutter
splutter
v. intrans.
Hiss: P. and V. σῡρίζειν.
v. intrans.
Hiss: P. and V. σῡρίζειν.
SPLUTTER
s. PROP. by circumlocution with the verb.
ImPROP. To make a great splutter about anything magno conatu magnas nugas dicere (Ter. Heaut. 4 1 8); excitare fiuctus in simpulo ut dicitur (Cic. Leg. 3 16); laborare sine causa (Cic. Fam. 13 1): what a splutter he makes! quas tragoedias efficit! (Cic. Tusc. 4 34 73).
s. PROP. by circumlocution with the verb.
ImPROP. To make a great splutter about anything magno conatu magnas nugas dicere (Ter. Heaut. 4 1 8); excitare fiuctus in simpulo ut dicitur (Cic. Leg. 3 16); laborare sine causa (Cic. Fam. 13 1): what a splutter he makes! quas tragoedias efficit! (Cic. Tusc. 4 34 73).
v. tumultuari (may express the noisy spluttering of one in a passion): ore confuso loqui or blaterare (os confusum; opposed to os planum or explanatum): voce perturbata loqui (vox perturbata inarticulate; opposed to vox explanabilis; Sen. De Ir. 1 3 5): *raptim atque perturbate loqui.
splutter (v.): i. e. to speak hastily and confusedly: nearest word, balbutire: v. TO STAMMER . More precisely, balba ac perturbata voce loqui: voce non explanabili sed balbutienti et perturbata et verborum inefficaci uti: cf. Sen. Ir. 1, 3, 5.