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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of fleō (“I weep, cry”).
Pronunciation
Participle
flētus (feminine flēta, neuter flētum); first/second-declension participle
- having been wept for
- having been grieved for
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Noun
flētus m (genitive flētūs); fourth declension
- weeping, crying
- Antonym: rīsus
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.32:
- Hac oratione ab Diviciaco habita omnes qui aderant magno fletu auxilium a Caesare petere coeperunt.
- When this speech had been delivered by Diviciacus, all who were present began with loud lamentation to entreat assistance of Caesar.
- tears
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
- → Italian: fleto (learned)
References
- “fletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fletus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- with many tears: magno cum fletu
- (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: fletum cohibere non posse
- (ambiguous) to move to tears: lacrimas or fletum alicui movere