Flatus, huius flatus, m. g. Cic.A puffe or blaste of winde.Fulminei flatus. Valer, Flac. Hebetatus flatus. Plin. Lenissimus. Plin. Mollissimus. Plin. Multiuagi flatus. Claud. Segnis flatus.Val. Flac.Tibia complet sedilia flatu. Hor. Flatum ventris emittere. Sueton. To let a scape: to breake winde downewarde.Validis flatibus erumpere.Cic.Vnde aliquis flatus ostenditur, vela do. Cicero. I turne saile that way as the winde bloweth.Hybernis parcebant flatibus Euri.Virg.Permulcere flatu aliquem locum.Cic.Resedit flatus repentè. Vir. The winde was sodainly alayed.Contorto flatu rotare aliquid. Sil. To turne with a whirle winde.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
flātus, ūs, m. [flo], a blowing, breathing, snorting (mostly poet.; syn.: flamen, flabra, ventus, aura). I.Lit.: nondum spissa nimis complere sedilia flatu (sc. tibiae), Hor. A. P. 205; Phaedr. 5, 7, 14: flatuque secundo, Carbasa mota sonant, Ov. M. 13, 418; so of the wind, id. ib. 14, 226; Hor. C. 4, 5, 10; also in plur., Ov. M. 15, 302; Verg. G. 2, 339: ipsa sui flatus ne sonet aura, cavet,
of his breath
, Ov. F. 1, 428: (equi) humescunt spumis flatuque sequentum,
with the snorting
, Verg. G. 3, 111; in plur.: aestiferi, Cic. Arat. 111: ventris (with crepitus),
a breaking wind
, Suet. Claud. 32: flatu figuratur vitrum, Plin. 36, 26, 66, 193.—B.Transf., concr., the breath of life, the soul, Prud. stef. 3, 168.— II.Trop.A.A breath, breeze (the fig. being taken from wind): cum prospero flatu fortunae utimur, ad exitus pervehimur optatos, Cic. Off. 2, 6, 19: ad id, unde aliquis flatus ostenditur, vela do, id. de Or. 2, 44, 187. —B.Pride, haughtiness (mostly in plur.): det libertatem fandi flatusque remittat, Verg. A. 11, 346; Ov. A. A. 1, 715; Val. Fl. 3, 699; Stat. Th. 1, 321; 3, 192.