gemitus

Latin

Etymology

From gemō.

Noun

gemitus m (genitive gemitūs); fourth declension

1. groan, sigh, lamentation
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.288:

     “[...] sed graviter gemitūs īmō dē pectore dūcēns, [...].”

     “[...] but heavily drawing a groan from deep within his chest, [Hector says: ...].”

2. pain, sorrow
3. roaring

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	gemitus	gemitūs
genitive	gemitūs	gemituum
dative	gemituī	gemitibus
accusative	gemitum	gemitūs
ablative	gemitū	gemitibus
vocative	gemitus	gemitūs

Descendants

• Albanian: gjëmë
• Aromanian: dzeamit
• Italian: gemito
• Portuguese: gemido
• Romanian: geamăt
• Spanish: gemido

References

• “gemitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gemitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gemitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.