Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin vāgītus ("crying, wailing"), from vāgiō ("cry, wail"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ita attenuatus fuit jejunio et vigiliis, in tantum exeso corpora ut ossibus vix haerebat, undo nocte infantum vagitus, balatus pecorum, mugitus boum, voces et ludibria daemonum,”
“The labor is difficult and long, and it may get worse before the vagitus is heard, but don't despair over the Middle East: something great, something wondrous, something completely unimaginable is there aborning.”
“Continuo audita voces, vagitus et ingens, Infantumque animaflentes in limine primo.”
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
“Possibly his first little wolfish howl (for it would be monstrous to think that he or even Remus condescended to a _vagitus_ or cry such as a young tailor or rat-catcher might emit) may have symphonized with the ear-shattering trumpet that proclaimed the inauguration of the first”
“JUVENALtS Sldera te excipiant modo prlmos incipientcm 19 f Edere vagitus; & adhuc a matre rubentem.”
Internet Archive: A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ...
“Avido patri subtrahitur infans ne voretur, et Corybantum cymbalis, ne pater audiat, vagitus initus eliditur" (read _audiat vagitus, tinnitus illi editur_, from the _vestigia_ of Cod.”
“Ammian.xxv. 10, and Vales. ad locum.] [Footnote 14: Cugus vagitus, pertinaciter reluctantis, ne in curuli sella veheretur ex more, id quod mox accidit protendebat.”
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
“Ammian.xxv. 10, and Vales. ad locum.] 14 Cugus vagitus, pertinaciter reluctantis, ne in curuli sella veheretur ex more, id quod mox accidit protendebat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vagitus’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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phrontistery-v
from phrontistery.info
vaccary, vaccimulgence, vaccine, vacillate, vadelect, vade-mecum, vadimony, vadose, vafrous, vagient, vagile, vagility and 396 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Heterological
You'd never guess the meaning looking at the word
pulchritudinous, crepuscule, dropsy, sexfoil, mingent, twitter-bone, vagitus, half-hag, brownswine, sempervirent, roric, osculum
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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the sound and the furry
Noises. Animals. Noises made by animals.
stridulation, chirr, ululation, vagitus, week, wheeple, drintling, chavish, skirr, hirrient, chuttering, croodle and 5 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Pnin
glabella, defenestration, chimerical, vernalization, vagitus, laconic
Tweets
Looking for tweets for vagitus.
ophelia 46 Jan 15, 2009
pavonine The cry of a newborn. Dec 16, 2007