ploro

See also: plörö

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

ploro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of plorar

Esperanto

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Noun

ploro (accusative singular ploron, plural ploroj, accusative plural plorojn)

  1. crying

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplɔ.ro/
  • Rhymes: -ɔro
  • Hyphenation: plò‧ro

Etymology 1

Deverbal from plorare (to cry) +‎ -o.

Noun

ploro m (plural plori)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) cry, crying
    Synonyms: (obsolete, literary) fleto, pianto

Further reading

  • ploro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ploro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of plorare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (to flow).

Pronunciation

Verb

plōrō (present infinitive plōrāre, perfect active plōrāvī, supine plōrātum); first conjugation

  1. to cry out
  2. to lament, complain, deplore
    Synonyms: dēplōrō, queror, conqueror, ingemō, gemō, plangō, lūgeō, fleō

Conjugation

1At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: piorare, piurare
    • Sicilian: chiurari
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Istriot: piurà
    • Romansch: plürar
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: pioré
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: plorar, pllorar
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: chorar (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Leonese:
      • Asturian: llorar, ḷḷorar, ḷḷurar, yorar, chorar, churar
      • Extremaduran: lloral
      • Mirandese: chorar
    • Old Spanish:
      • Ladino: yorar
      • Spanish: llorar (see there for further descendants)
  • Borrowings:

References

  • ploro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ploro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ploro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 473-4


Spanish

Verb

ploro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of plorar