1990s: from Latin squalus (denoting a kind of marine fish and used as a rare term in English for โsharkโ)
squall | skwรดl |
noun
a sudden violent gust of wind or a localized storm, especially one bringing rain, snow, or sleet: low clouds and squalls of driving rain.
โข a loud cry: he emitted a short mournful squall.
verb [no object]
(of a baby or small child) cry noisily and continuously: Sarah was squalling in her crib.
ORIGIN
mid 17th century: probably an alteration of squeal, influenced by bawl.
Vagitanus
Overview
In ancient Roman religion, Vagitanus or Vaticanus was one of a number of childbirth deities who influenced or guided some aspect of parturition, in this instance the newborn's crying. Some sources relate it to the Latin noun vagitus, "crying, squalling, wailing," particularly by a baby or an animal, and the verb vagio, vagire. Vagitanus has thus been described as the god "who presided over the beginning of human speech," but a distinction should be made between the first cry and the first instance of articulate speech, in regard to which Fabulinus (fari, "to speak"; cf. fabula) was the deity to invoke. Vagitanus has been connected to a remark by Pliny that only a human being is thrown naked onto the naked earth on his day of birth for immediate wails (vagitus) and weeping.
squalo
noun
[ masculine ] /'skwalo/
(pesce)
shark
squalo tigre tiger shark
squalo balena whale shark