blătĭo — Lewis & Short
blătĭo, īre, v. a.kindred with blatero,
I to utter foolish things, to babble, prate (anteclass. and late Lat.):
nugas blatis,Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 79; so id. Curc. 3, 82; id. Ep. 3, 1, 13; Tert. Pall. 2; cf. Non. p. 44, 11 sq.