hoarse Copy link • hoarse: raucus (denoting either an affection of the throat, or natural harshness of voice): to make oneself h. with asking, rogitando r. fieri, Pl. Ep. 2, 2, 18: Cic.: the h. croak of frogs, vox r. ranarum, Ov.: the h. Adriatic, r. Adria, Hor. Somewhat h., subraucus, Cic. To become h., irraucesco, irrausi, 3: but the perf. only occurs: if he be but a trifle h., si paulum irrauserit, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 259. Phr.: to call till one is h., usque ad ravim poscere, Pl. Aul. 2, 5, 10: when by being encored again and again he had become h., quum saepius revocatus vocem obtudisset, Liv. 7, 2.