noun, masculine/sɑ̃.ɡlo/plural: sanglots
sob
“Les sanglots longs / Des violons / De l’automne / Blessent mon cœur / D’une langueur / Monotone.” — When a sighing begins / In the violins / Of the autumn-song, / My heart is drowned / In the slow sound / Languorous and long
Inherited from Old French sangloit, singlot, from Vulgar Latin *singluttus, a blend of gluttīre (“to swallow”) + Latin singultus (“a hiccup”). Compare Catalan sanglot, Italian singhiozzo, and Occitan sanglòt.