plango.
to strike, beat, flap (repeatedly or with a noise)
Meaning & usage
to strike, beat, flap (repeatedly or with a noise)
to beat the breast etc. as a sign of grief, desperation, fury
to bewail, lament for
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Italic *plāngō, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-, *pleh₂g- (“to strike”). Cognate with Latin plēctō (“to punish, to beat; to blame”), Ancient Greek πλήσσω (plḗssō), Old Church Slavonic плакати (plakati), Dutch vloeken.
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