vagitus

From Latin vāgītus (“crying, wailing”), from vāgiō (“cry, wail”).

vagitus (uncountable)

1. The crying of a newborn baby

• vagitus uterinus

From vāgiō (“cry, wail”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /waːˈɡiː.tus/, [waːˈɡiː.tʊs]

vāgītus m (genitive vāgītūs); fourth declension

1. crying, wailing

Fourth declension.

• vāgiō

• English: vagitus
• Spanish: vagido

• vagitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vagitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vagitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vagitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette