condole

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin condoleo, condolere (“to suffer with another”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊl

Verb

condole (third-person singular simple present condoles, present participle condoling, simple past and past participle condoled)

1. To grieve.
2. To express sympathetic sorrow; to lament in sympathy.
   • Sir W. Temple

     Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you.

Related terms

• condolence

Translations

to grieve

• Latin: condoleo

• Russian: горевать (ru) (gorevatʹ), сокрушаться (ru) (sokrušatʹsja)

to express sympathetic sorrow, to lament

• Berber:

  Tashelhit: fcd (feshd)

• Polish: współczuć (pl)
• Russian: соболезновать (ru) (soboleznovatʹ), сочу́вствовать (ru) (sočúvstvovatʹ)

Anagrams

• cold one

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Latin

Verb

condolē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of condoleō