Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The condition of having stale or foul-smelling breath.

    Mundgeruch

    галито́зgalitóz, неприя́тный за́пах и́зо рта́neprijátnyj zápax ízo rtá

More definitions
  • offensive breath

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom has halitosis and his friends are reluctant to get too close to him.

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Translations

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condition of having foul-smelling breath:
Deutsch
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condition of having foul-smelling breath:

Origin

Coined by doctor Joseph William Howe in 1874 and described as being derived from the Latin

Coined by doctor Joseph William Howe in 1874 and described as being derived from the Latin hālitus (literally “whiff, breath”) and the Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, literally “disease”). It can be also understood as combination of the Latin hālitus and the English suffix -osis.

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