fletus

Perfect passive participle of fleō (“I weep, cry”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfleː.tus/, [ˈfɫ̪eːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfle.tus/, [ˈflɛːt̪us]

flētus (feminine flēta, neuter flētum); first/second-declension participle

1. having been wept for
2. having been grieved for

First/second-declension adjective.

• īnflētus

flētus m (genitive flētūs); fourth declension

1. weeping, crying

   Antonym: rīsus

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.32:

     Hac oratione ab Diviciaco habita omnes qui aderant magno fletu auxilium a Caesare petere coeperunt.

     When this speech had been delivered by Diviciacus, all who were present began with loud lamentation to entreat assistance of Caesar.

2. tears

Fourth-declension noun.

• → Italian: fleto (learned)

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