L / lessus

lessus

acc. um (only in acc. sing.)
a wailing, cry, funeral lamentation
a wailing, cry, funeral lamentation: mulieres genas ne radunto, neve lessum funeris ergo habento, Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59; but a false reading for pausam, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 18.