This week's theme: There is a word for it.

vagitus (vuh-JI-tuhs) noun

   The cry of a newborn.

[From Latin vagire (to wail).]

   A newborn child's cry is called vagitus. Babies' cries have been heard
   even before their births. It's rare but vagitus uterinus has been
   observed on occasions when the membranes rupture, allowing air to enter
   the uterine cavity.

-Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org)

  "[Pnin] unfolded, for he actually seemed to forehear the babe's vagitus,
   and its first word in the near future."
   Vladimir Nabokov; Pnin; 1957.

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