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English
Etymology
From Latin vāgītus (“crying, wailing”), from vāgiō (“cry, wail”).
Noun
vagitus (uncountable)
- The crying of a newborn baby.
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From vāgiō (“cry, wail”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vāgītus m (genitive vāgītūs); fourth declension
- crying, wailing
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “vagitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vagitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vagitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- vagitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.