planctus

Latin

planctus (plural plancti)

1. A lament or dirge, a popular literary form in the Middle Ages.

Perfect passive participle of plangō.

plānctus (feminine plāncta, neuter plānctum); first/second-declension participle

1. (chiefly Late Latin, rare) bewailed, lamented, mourned
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 42.6:

     Plānctus est optimē – manumīsit aliquot – etiam sī malignē illum plōrāvit uxor

     He got a first-class bewailing - he freed some servants; even though his wife only shed a few stingy tears for him.

First/second-declension adjective.

plangō +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

plānctus m (genitive plānctūs); fourth declension

1. a noisy beating, striking, slapping
2. a wailing, loud mourning, lamentation
3. a specific type of song or poem, popular in medieval Europe, expressing mourning or lamentation

Fourth-declension noun.

• “planctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “planctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "planctus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• planctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• planctus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung