fleto

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

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

fleto m (plural fleti)

1. (obsolete, literary) crying, weeping, lamentation

   Synonyms: pianto, (obsolete, poetic) ploro

   • 1316–c. 1321, 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]‎, 2^nd 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.

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

• folte

flētō

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

flētō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of flētus

• IPA^(key): /ˈfleto/
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: fle‧to

fleto m (plural fletos)

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

fleto

1. first-person singular present indicative of fletar

• “fleto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10