fletus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of fleō (“I weep, cry”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfleː.tus/, [ˈfɫ̪eːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfle.tus/, [ˈflɛːt̪us]
Participle
flētus (feminine flēta, neuter flētum); first/second-declension participle
- having been wept for
- having been grieved for
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | flētus | flēta | flētum | flētī | flētae | flēta | |
| Genitive | flētī | flētae | flētī | flētōrum | flētārum | flētōrum | |
| Dative | flētō | flētō | flētīs | ||||
| Accusative | flētum | flētam | flētum | flētōs | flētās | flēta | |
| Ablative | flētō | flētā | flētō | flētīs | |||
| Vocative | flēte | flēta | flētum | flētī | flētae | flēta | |
Derived terms
- īnflētus
Noun
flētus m (genitive flētūs); fourth declension
- weeping, crying
- Antonym: rīsus
- tears
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | flētus | flētūs |
| Genitive | flētūs | flētuum |
| Dative | flētuī | flētibus |
| Accusative | flētum | flētūs |
| Ablative | flētū | flētibus |
| Vocative | flētus | flētūs |
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
- with many tears: magno cum fletu