Crepito, crépitas, pen. cor. crepitâre. Frequent. Plin. To make a noyse or creaking. Crepitant in igne. Crackle in the fire.Bractea crepitat.Virg.Crepitare dentibus.Plaut.To chatter with the teeth.Flammis crepitare. Tibul. Multa grandine nimbi crepitant.Virg.Duro crepitant sub vulnere malæ.Virg.Crepitat mihi venter.Plaut.My belly courleth or rÛbleth.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
crĕpĭto, āre, v. freq. n. [crepo], to rattle much, to creak, crackle, clatter, rustle, rumble, chatter, murmur, etc. (poet. or in post-Aug. prose): dentibus, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 52; Lucr. 5, 746: tenui rostro, Ov. M. 11, 735; cf. id. ib. 6, 97: lapillis unda, id. ib. 11, 604: multā grandine nimbi, Verg. A. 5, 459; cf. id. G. 1, 449: leni vento brattea, id. A. 6, 209: duris incudibus enses,
to ring
, id. G. 2, 540; cf. arma, Tib. 2, 5, 73; Ov. M. 1, 143; 15, 783: fulvo auro rami, id. ib. 10, 648: flammā crepitante, Lucr. 6, 155; Verg. A. 7, 74: crepitanti sistro, Prop. 3 (4), 11 (9 Bib.), 43 (cf. Ov. M. 9, 784): intestina (with crepant), Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 27: flos salis in igne nec crepitat nec exsilit,