Word of the Day Archive
Sunday November 27, 2011
stertor \STUR-ter\
, noun:
A heavy snoring sound.
He was snoring, a wheeze and stertor that animated the papers scattered round him...
-- T.C. Boyle, Riven Rock
The stertor of Meat's breathing came softly, almost soothingly, through the wall.
-- Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Stertor comes from the Latin stret which meant “to snore.”
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for stertor
