plōrātus

I. a wailing, weeping, lamenting.

I. Lit.: virginalem ploratum edere, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 21: ploratum infantis cohibere, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 29: vox ploratūs, Vulg. Matt. 2, 18.—In plur.: omnia mulierum ploratibus sonant, Liv. 29, 17.—

II. Transf., of the weeping or bleeding of a tree, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 116.