vagitate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To wander or move at random. rare
    — Even with the emergence of the ideas of self-assertion among the Asians, the Imperialists are not only trying to dominate the region through the system of remote control, but are also vagitating around to get a chance again to enter the ground and graze wantonly.
  2. To wail, mewl (as an infant).
    — Et le râle, qu'est-ce qu'on en fait. Peut-être n'est-il pas de rigueur après tout. Avoir vagi, puis ne pas être foutu de râler.

词形变化

vagitates present,singular,third-person vagitating participle,present vagitated participle,past vagitated past vagitates present,singular,third-person vagitating participle,present vagitated participle,past vagitated past

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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