fleo

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek φλέως (phléōs, “wool-tufted reed”).

fleo m (plural flei)

1. timothy, catstail

• elfo

From Proto-Italic *flēō, from earlier *flējō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫe.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈflɛː.o]

fleō (present infinitive flēre, perfect active flēvī, supine flētum); second conjugation

1. (intransitive) to weep, cry

   Antonyms: rīdeō, subrīdeō

   • Horatius, Ars Poetica

     Sī vīs mē flēre, dolendum est prīmum ipsī tibi.

     If you wish me to cry, you yourself must first be grieved.

2. (transitive) to lament, bewail, grieve for

   Synonyms: dēplōrō, ingemō, lūgeō, gemō, queror, conqueror, plōrō, plangō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• flēbiliter

• “fleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fleo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: fletum cohibere non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to move to tears: lacrimas or fletum alicui movere
    

fleo

1. alternative form of flo

• flīo, fleah, flīe, flīġ

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *fleg-, related to Proto-Germanic *flekka-. Cognate with Old Saxon flī (“white spot”).

• IPA^(key): /fle͜oː/

flēo n

1. a white spot in the eye

• The neuter forms are indeclineable.

• flēa m (“white spot in the eye”)