The corpus record — Latin

fletus

fletus · P. a

Part. and P. a., from fleo

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Where it lives

Troades 9 · 13.21/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 7 · 6.21/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 2 · 3.53/10k
Peristephanon Liber 6 · 3.42/10k
Silvae 8 · 3.19/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Elegiae 8 · 3.16/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 2 · 3.14/10k

Densest 12 of 74 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. flētus — Lewis & Short

flētus, a, um, P. a., from fleo.

Part. and

2. flētus — Lewis & Short

flētus, ūs, m.fleo,

I a weeping, wailing, lamenting.

I Lit. (class.; in sing. and plur.): nemo me lacrimis decoret nec funera fletu Faxit, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34 (Epigr. 1, 3, p. 162 ed. Vahl.); cf.: quantum fletum factum audivi! Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17; and: quod usque eo visum est indignum, ut urbe tota fletus gemitusque fieret, Cic. Rosc. Am. 9, 24: lugubris lamentatio fletusque maerens, id. Tusc. 1, 13, 30: mulierum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 21, § 47: fletus cum singultu, id. Planc. 31, 76: prae fletu et dolore, for tears, id. Att. 11, 7, 6: assiduo fletu sororis, id. Clu. 6, 15: haec magna cum misericordia fletuque pronuntiantur, Caes. B. C. 2, 12 fin.: clamore ac fletu omnia compleri, id. B. G. 5, 33 fin.: fletum populo movere, Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228: fletum reprimere, id. Rep. 6, 15: magno fletu auxilium petere, Caes. B. G. 1, 32, 1: virginum precibus et fletu excitati, id. B. C. 2, 4, 3: cum ille erumpit fletus, Quint. 6, 2, 7: fletibus natos, laetitia defunctos prosequi, id. 5, 11, 38: nullis ille movetur fletibus, Verg. A. 4, 439.—

II Transf., concr., = lacrimae, tears: fletu super ora refuso, Ov. M. 11, 658; so ib. 673.

In the wild

fletus Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.119
fletus Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.15.1
fletus Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.5.40.3
fletus Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.1
fletus Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
fletus Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 2.M1

6 of 198 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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