fleto
See also: fletó
Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin flētus, perfect passive participle of fleō (“to weep, cry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɛ.to/
- Rhymes: -ɛto
- Hyphenation: flè‧to
Noun
fleto m (plural fleti)
- (obsolete, literary) crying, weeping, lamentation
- 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 43–45; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- ma per acquisto d'esto viver lieto
e Sisto e Pïo e Calisto e Urbano
sparser lo sangue dopo molto fleto.- But in acquest of this delightful life Sixtus and Pius, Calixtus and Urban, after much lamentation, shed their blood.
Related terms
Further reading
- fleto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
flētō
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of fleō
Participle
flētō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of flētus
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfleto/ [ˈfle.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -eto
- Syllabification: fle‧to
Etymology 1
Noun
fleto m (plural fletos)
- (Chile, Cuba, derogatory, vulgar) male homosexual, fag
Etymology 2
Verb
fleto
- first-person singular present indicative of fletar
Further reading
- “fleto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024