planctus
English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
planctus (plural plancti)
- A lament or dirge, a popular literary form in the Middle Ages.
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of plangō.
Participle
plānctus (feminine plāncta, neuter plānctum); first/second-declension participle
- (chiefly Late Latin, rare) bewailed, lamented, mourned
- c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 42.6:
- Plānctus est optimē – manumīsit aliquot – etiam sī malignē illum plōrāvit uxor
- He got a first-class bewailing - he freed some servants; even though his wife only shed a few stingy tears for him.
- Plānctus est optimē – manumīsit aliquot – etiam sī malignē illum plōrāvit uxor
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | plānctus | plāncta | plānctum | plānctī | plānctae | plāncta | |
| Genitive | plānctī | plānctae | plānctī | plānctōrum | plānctārum | plānctōrum | |
| Dative | plānctō | plānctō | plānctīs | ||||
| Accusative | plānctum | plānctam | plānctum | plānctōs | plānctās | plāncta | |
| Ablative | plānctō | plānctā | plānctō | plānctīs | |||
| Vocative | plāncte | plāncta | plānctum | plānctī | plānctae | plāncta | |
Descendants
- Aromanian: plãmtu
- Italian: pianto
- French: plaint
- Spanish: llanto
- Portuguese: pranto
Etymology 2
plangō + -tus (action noun suffix).
Noun
plānctus m (genitive plānctūs); fourth declension
- a noisy beating, striking, slapping
- a wailing, loud mourning, lamentation
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | plānctus | plānctūs |
| Genitive | plānctūs | plānctuum |
| Dative | plānctuī | plānctibus |
| Accusative | plānctum | plānctūs |
| Ablative | plānctū | plānctibus |
| Vocative | plānctus | plānctūs |
Descendants
- Catalan: plant
- English: plaint
- French: plainte
- Galician: chanto (archaic), pranto
- Italian: pianto
- Norman: pliainte
- Occitan: plancha
- Old Portuguese: chanto
- Portuguese: pranto
- Sardinian: piantu, prantu
- Sicilian: ciantu, chiantu
- Spanish: llanto, planto
Further reading
- “planctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “planctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- planctus 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)
- planctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette