lament
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French lamenter < Latin lamentari (“‘to wail, weep’”) < lamentum (“‘a wailing, lament, moaning’”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la, seen also in latrare.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
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lament (plural laments)
[edit] Translations
expression of grief
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song expressing grief
[edit] Verb
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to lament (third-person singular simple present laments, present participle lamenting, simple past and past participle lamented)
- (intransitive) To express grief.
- (transitive) To bewail.
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Translations
express grief
bewail
[edit] Related terms
[edit] External links
- lament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- lament in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
