Singultus, which comes from a Latin word for “sobbing” or “dying breath,” is a fancy way of describing a not-so-fancy affliction: the hiccups. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Singultus”
If you ever feel like you’ve used the word hiccups too often in one paragraph, I have a solution for you.
Yes.
You can use the word singultus.
Singultus. It sounds Latin.
It is. It comes from the Latin word meaning an uttering of sobs or speech that’s broken by sobbing.
How do you spell that?
S-I-N-G-U-L-T-U-S and singletation is the act of hiccuping.
So one hiccup is a singletation.
It’s a single, singletation.
Singletus, singletus.
Right.
That is if you have the aversion to using a word more than once.
We’ve talked about this and I do have that.
Yes.
I try not to use uncommon terms more than once in a paragraph.
Yeah.
But if you’ve used hiccups too many times, there you go.
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