fleto

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See also: fletó

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin flētus, perfect passive participle of fleō (to weep, cry).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɛ.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛto
  • Hyphenation: flè‧to

Noun

fleto m (plural fleti)

  1. (obsolete, literary) crying, weeping, lamentation
    Synonyms: pianto, (obsolete, poetic) ploro
    • c. 13161321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎, lines 43–45; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      ma per acquisto d'esto viver lieto
      e Sisto e Pïo e Calisto e Urbano
      sparser lo sangue dopo molto fleto.
      But in acquest of this delightful life Sixtus and Pius, Calixtus and Urban, after much lamentation, shed their blood.

Further reading

  • fleto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

flētō

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of fleō

Participle

flētō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of flētus

Spanish

Etymology 1

Noun

fleto m (plural fletos)

  1. (Chile, Cuba, derogatory, vulgar) male homosexual, fag

Etymology 2

Verb

fleto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fletar

Further reading