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 Latin) IPA^(key): [waːˈɡiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vaˈd͡ʒiː.t̪us]

vāgītus m (genitive vāgītūs); fourth declension

1. crying, wailing
   • Florus, Epitome of Roman History 1.3-4:

     relictis catulis lupa secuta vagitum uber admovit infantibus matremque egit.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Fourth-declension noun.

• vāgiō

• English: vagitus
• Italian: vagito, >? guaito
• Portuguese: vagido
• 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vagitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.