The corpus record — Latin

vagio

vagio · v. n

to cry

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Where it lives

De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.91/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vāgĭo — Lewis & Short

vāgĭo, īvi or ĭi, 4, v. n.root vāk-, vāg-; cf. Ved. vacati, roars; Lat. vacca, 2. vagor: idcirco vagire dicitur, exprimente verbo sonum vocis recentis, Varr. ap. Gell. 16, 17, 2; of young children,

I to cry, squall.

I Lit.: audivisse vocem pueri visu'st vagientis, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 2: repuerascere et in cunis vagire, Cic. Sen. 23, 83: videtis ... populum non ut in cunabulis vagientem, sed adultum, id. Rep. 2, 11, 21; Ov. F. 2, 405; 4, 208; 6, 146; Stat. S. 4, 8, 35 al.—Of young goats, acc. to Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll.; cf. vagitus.—Of young hares, Auct. Carm. Philom. 60.—Of swine, Mart. 3, 58, 37.—*

II Transf., to sound: clamor ad caelum volvendu' per aethera vagit, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll. (Ann. v. 520 Vahl.).

In the wild

vagire Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.592
vagiam Cicero, De Senectute 83.p2
vagire Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.26.4
vagiret Statius, Silvae 4.8.35
vagiat Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.2
vagientem Cicero, De Republica 2.21

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.