The corpus record — Latin

vāgŭlātĭo

questio cum convicio

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What it meant

1. vagulatio — de Vaan

vagulatio 'questio cum convicio' (Fest.), vagulus 'wandering' (or 'crying'?) (Hadrianus); obvagTre 'to cry importunately' (PL), obvagulare 'to make a loud noise' (Lex XII apud Fest.). Pit *wag-ije/o-l Panagl/Lindner 1995: 172 posit a derivational chain vagio —► vagulus —> *vagulare —> vagulatio. The etymology is uncertain: Skt. vagnu- 'sound, call', vagvana'talkative' may have *-g-, but are connected with the root … — [de Vaan, s.v. vagulatio, p. 665]

2. vāgŭlātĭo — Lewis & Short

vāgŭlātĭo, ōnis, v. obvagulo.

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.