The corpus record — Latin

vagitus

vagitus · m

a crying

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
De Anima 2 · 0.84/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vāgītus — Lewis & Short

vāgītus, ūs, m.vagio,

I a crying, squalling of young children: vagitus et ploratus, Plin. 7, praef. § 2: vagituque locum lugubri complet, Lucr. 5, 226: continuo auditae voces vagitus et ingens Infantumque animae flentes, Verg. A. 6, 426: edere vagitum, Quint. 1, 1, 21: dare, Ov. H. 11, 85: sonare vagitibus, Mart. 9, 21, 3.—Of the bleating of young goats, Ov. M. 15, 466; cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll.—Of a crying for pain: nec nox ulla ... Quae non audierit mixtos vagitibus aegris Ploratus, Lucr. 2, 579; Cels. 7 praef. med.

In the wild

vagitum Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.634
vagitus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.praef.p2
uagituque Silius Italicus, Punica 12.591
uagitumque Silius Italicus, Punica 3.77
vagituque Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.226
vagitibus Statius, Thebais 4.785

6 of 45 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.