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fleo
fleo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *flēō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfle.oː/, [ˈfɫe.oː]
Verb
fleō (present infinitive flēre, perfect active flēvī, supine flētum); second conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- I weep, cry
- I lament, grieve for
- Horatius, Ars Poetica
- Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.
- If you wish me to cry, you yourself must first be grieved.
- Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.
- Horatius, Ars Poetica
Inflection
- In practice, the only passive forms met with in Latin are the third-person singular forms.
| Conjugation of fleo (second conjugation, impersonal in passive) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | fleō | flēs | flet | flēmus | flētis | flent |
| imperfect | flēbam | flēbās | flēbat | flēbāmus | flēbātis | flēbant | |
| future | flēbō | flēbis | flēbit | flēbimus | flēbitis | flēbunt | |
| perfect | flēvī | flēvistī | flēvit | flēvimus | flēvistis | flēvērunt, flēvēre | |
| pluperfect | flēveram | flēverās | flēverat | flēverāmus | flēverātis | flēverant | |
| future perfect | flēverō | flēveris | flēverit | flēverimus | flēveritis | flēverint | |
| passive | present | — | — | flētur | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | flēbātur | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | flēbitur | — | — | — | |
| perfect | flētus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | flētus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | flētus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | fleam | fleās | fleat | fleāmus | fleātis | fleant |
| imperfect | flērem | flērēs | flēret | flērēmus | flērētis | flērent | |
| perfect | flēverim | flēverīs | flēverit | flēverīmus | flēverītis | flēverint | |
| pluperfect | flēvissem | flēvissēs | flēvisset | flēvissēmus | flēvissētis | flēvissent | |
| passive | present | — | — | fleātur | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | flērētur | — | — | — | |
| perfect | flētus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | flētus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | flē | — | — | flēte | — |
| future | — | flētō | flētō | — | flētōte | flentō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | flēre | flēvisse | flētūrus esse | flērī | flētus esse | — | |
| participles | flēns | — | flētūrus | — | flētus | flendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| flēre | flendī | flendō | flendum | flētum | flētū | ||
Derived terms
Related terms
- flēbiliter
References
- fleo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fleo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fleo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: fletum cohibere non posse
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(ambiguous) to move to tears: lacrimas or fletum alicui movere
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(ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: fletum cohibere non posse