percuss
English
/pəˈkʌs/, /pɚˈkʌs/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to strike; to hit; to knock; to give a blow to
- (intransitive) to impact
- (transitive) to attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface)
- (transitive) to attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French percussir derived from Latin percussus.
Origin
Latin
percussus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonpercussive English
- percussive English
- percussively English
- percussiveness English
- ultrapercussive English
- unpercussive English
- percussus Latin
- percutere Latin
- quatiō Latin
- percuotere Italian
- percussir Old French