lamentum

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *lāmentom, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (expressive root։ to howl, cry, bark).[1] Cognate with lātrō, Ancient Greek λῆρος (lêros), λάλος (lálos), λάσκω (láskō).

Noun

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lāmentum n (genitive lāmentī); second declension

  1. wailing, moaning, weeping, crying, shrieking
  2. lamentation, lament
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.667–668:
      Lāmentīs gemitūque et fēmineō ululātū / tēcta fremunt [...].
      The homes [of Carthage] howl with laments, sorrow, and women’s wailing.

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lāmentum lāmenta
Genitive lāmentī lāmentōrum
Dative lāmentō lāmentīs
Accusative lāmentum lāmenta
Ablative lāmentō lāmentīs
Vocative lāmentum lāmenta

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: lament
  • English: lament
  • Galician: lamento
  • Italian: lamento
  • Polish: lament
  • Portuguese: lamento
  • Spanish: lamento

References

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  • lamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lamentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • lamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lāmenta, -ōrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 324-5