"vagitate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: vagitates [present, singular, third-person], vagitating [participle, present], vagitated [participle, past], vagitated [past]
Etymology: Attested earliest as a ghost word in the 1928 volume of the New English Dictionary On Historical Principles (NED). Some later uses may have been based (directly or indirectly) on this entry. The editors of the NED interpreted it as a borrowing from Latin vagitō, vagitāre, an obscure medieval verb Others read here "per Hispaniam e palatio vagitant". built on the root of Classical Latin vagor, vagārī (“to ramble, stroll about”), from vagus (“wandering”). Etymology templates: {{ref|The word appeared on page 11 in Volume 10, part 2, marked as obsolete, defined as "to roam or travel" and supported by a single citation attributed to Walter Raleigh's History of the World, 1614, I.viii. (1654) 103 "Before the use of the compass was known it was impossible to vagitate a-thwart the Ocean." However, this appears to be a misreading of an original "nauigate" i.e. navigate.|group=n}}, {{bor|en|la|vagitō|vagitō, vagitāre}} Latin vagitō, vagitāre, {{ref|Compared to vagārī, the form vagitāre shows the addition of the frequentative suffix <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">-itāre</i> and a change from deponent to non-deponent conjugation. An entry for this vagitāre appears in the Medieval Latin dictionary of du Cange, who cites Isidorus Pacens. Episc. in Chronico æra 739: "Per Hispaniam e Palatio Vagitavit". Others read here "per Hispaniam e palatio vagitant".|group=n}} Others read here "per Hispaniam e palatio vagitant". Head templates: {{en-verb}} vagitate (third-person singular simple present vagitates, present participle vagitating, simple past and past participle vagitated)
  1. To wander or move at random.
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Etymology number: 1

Verb [English]

Forms: vagitates [present, singular, third-person], vagitating [participle, present], vagitated [participle, past], vagitated [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vāgiō, vāgīre (“to wail, to squall (as an infant), to cry out”) via a frequentative form vāgītō, vāgītāre, attested in medieval Latin as a verb meaning "to wail, to cry out in distress (of an infant); to cry out (of a hare)". Compare French vagir, English vagitus (“the crying of a newborn baby”), vagient (“crying like a child”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|vāgiō|vāgiō, vāgīre|t=to wail, to squall (as an infant), to cry out}} Latin vāgiō, vāgīre (“to wail, to squall (as an infant), to cry out”), {{cog|fr|vagir}} French vagir, {{cog|en|vagitus|t=the crying of a newborn baby}} English vagitus (“the crying of a newborn baby”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} vagitate (third-person singular simple present vagitates, present participle vagitating, simple past and past participle vagitated)
  1. To wail, mewl (as an infant).
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Etymology number: 2

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