Borrowed fromLatinoestrus(“gadfly, sting, frenzy”), fromAncient Greekοἶστρος(oîstros), fromProto-Indo-European*h₁eys-, used to form words denoting passion; see alsoLatinīra(“anger”),Lithuanianaistra(“violent passion”),Avestan𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀(aesma,“anger”).
- IPA(key): /ˈiːstɹəs/,/ˈɛstɹəs/
oestrus (countable anduncountable,pluraloestrusesoroestri)
- (countable) A bitingfly of the genusOestrus; abotfly.
1915,American Veterinary Review, page407:[…] and which is produced by the larvae ofoestri and particularly ofOestrus hemorrhoidalis.
1963,Bacteriological Reviews, page92, column 1:If this is inseparable from the oeconomy of nature, it necessarily follows that man must be subject to the depredations ofoestri, ichneumons, . . . and perhaps, thousands of others, which the senses, aided by the directions of a correct understanding, may be able to trace in a way that will fall very little short of absolute demonstration.
- (countable) Abite orsting.
- (countable, archaic) Apassion orfrenzy.
- (countable and uncountable, biology) A female animal's readiness tomate.
- Hypernyms:heat,rut
- Coordinate term:musth
1910,Cleveland Medical Journal, page517:In those monoestrous species in which the male is capable all the year round, it is found that theoestri of individual females come at different seasons.
1939,The Philippine Agriculturist, page289:A vasectomized Philippine carabao bull was used as a teaser to determine the occurrence and recurrence ofoestri.
1962,Neoplasma, page152:An evaluation was carried out so that the mean number ofoestri per one animal was calculated for 14 days in the three periods:[…]
1980,The Zimbabwe Journal of Agricultural Research, page73:Intervals betweenoestri and between ovulations in dairy cows within 100 dayspost partum
2001, David Lodge,Thinks...:It’s the supremely human act, freely to fuck, not because you are on heat, or inoestrus, like an animal, but to give and receive pleasure.
2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, inThe Origins of AIDS, 1st edition,→ISBN, page29:The substantial genital swelling of [female chimpanzees] duringoestrus may facilitate transmission of viruses by making the mucosa more fragile.
a female animal's readiness to mate
- Bulgarian:разгонване n(razgonvane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:發情 /发情 (zh)(fāqíng)
- Esperanto:oestro
- Finnish:kiima (fi)
- French:œstrus (fr) m,chaleur (fr) f
- German:Brunst (de) f,Hitze (de) f
- Greek:οίστρος (el) m(oístros)
- Hebrew:יִחוּם m(yichúm)
- Hungarian:tüzelés (hu),ivarzás
- Irish:éastras m
- Italian:estro (it) m,calore (it) m
- Japanese:発情 (ja)(はつじょう, hatsujō)
- Korean:발정 (ko)(baljeong)
- Malay:estrus
- Ottoman Turkish:قیزغینلق(kızgınlık)
- Portuguese:estro (pt) m,cio (pt) m
- Russian:те́чка (ru) f(téčka),э́струс (ru) m(éstrus)
- Spanish:estro (es) m,celo (es) m,brama (es) f,berrea (es) f,cachondez f
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- Souters,Strouse,estrous,ousters,rousest,sestuor,sourest,souters,toruses,tousers,trouses,trousse,tussore
FromAncient Greekοἶστρος(oîstros).
oestrus m (genitiveoestrī);second declension
- gadfly
Second-declension noun.
- “oestrus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “oestrus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “oestrus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “oestrus”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
