fleto
See also: fletó
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin flētus, perfect passive participle of fleō (“to weep, cry”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fleto m (plural fleti)
- (obsolete, literary) crying, weeping, lamentation
- c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Paradiso [Heaven][1], lines 43–45; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 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 edit
Further reading edit
- fleto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Verb edit
flētō
Participle edit
flētō
Spanish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
fleto m (plural fletos)
- (Chile, Cuba, derogatory, vulgar) male homosexual, fag
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
fleto
Further reading edit
- “fleto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014