halitus

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   exhaled breath, especially when perceptible by its warmth or odor

   The animal's warm halitus clouded the cold glass.

2. 2
   noun

   a vapor, odor, or other emanation

   A sulfurous halitus rose from the fissure at dusk.

Borrowed from Latin halitus, 'breath, vapor, exhalation,' from halare, 'to breathe.' English retains the Latin word chiefly in literary and technical descriptions of a perceptible breath, vapor, or odor.

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