lacrima

See also: lacrimá, lacrimã, lacrimă, and lăcrima

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.kri.ma/

Noun

lacrima (plural lacrimas)

1. tear (from the eye, usually due to crying)

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Italian

Alternative forms

• lagrima (archaic or poetic)

Etymology

From Latin lācrima, from Old Latin lacruma, dacrima, dacruma, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru-.

Pronunciation

• làcrima, IPA^(key): /ˈlakrima/

Noun

lacrima f (plural lacrime)

1. tear (drop of fluid secreted from the eyes)

Verb

lacrima

1. third-person singular present indicative of lacrimare
2. second-person singular imperative of lacrimare

Related terms

• lacrimale
• lacrimare
• lacrimatorio
• lacrimazione
• lacrimevole
• lacrimogeno
• lacrimoso
• lacrima christi

Anagrams

• calarmi

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Latin

Alternative forms

• dacrima (archaic)
• lacruma
• lachryma
• lacryma

Etymology

From Old Latin lacruma, dacrima, dacruma, from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru-, from earlier compound *dr̥ḱ-h₂eḱru- (“eye bitter”). Cognates include Sanskrit अश्रु (aśru), Ancient Greek δάκρυον (dákruon) and Old English tēar (English tear).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kri.ma/, [ˈɫ̪äkrɪmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kri.ma/, [ˈläːkrimä]

Noun

lacrima f (genitive lacrimae); first declension

1. a tear (drop of liquid from crying)

   Lacrimae arma feminae sunt.

   Tears are the weapons of a woman.

   Lacrimae quoque arma viri sunt.

   Tears are also the weapons of a man.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lacrima	lacrimae
Genitive	lacrimae	lacrimārum
Dative	lacrimae	lacrimīs
Accusative	lacrimam	lacrimās
Ablative	lacrimā	lacrimīs
Vocative	lacrima	lacrimae

Related terms

• lacrimābilis
• lacrimābundus
• lacrimātiō
• lacrimō
• lacrimor
• lacrimōsē
• lacrimōsus
• lacrimula

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: lacãrmã
• Asturian: llárima, llágrima
• Catalan: llàgrima
• Esperanto: larmo (borrowing)
• French: larme
• Friulian: lagrime

• Galician: lágrima
• Ido: lakrimo (borrowing)
• Istriot: lagrama
• Italian: lacrima
• Occitan: lagrema
• Portuguese: lágrima

• Romanian: lacrimă, lacrămă
• Romansch: larma
• Sardinian: làcrima, làgrima, làmigra
• Sicilian: làcrima, làgrima, làrima
• Spanish: lágrima
• Venetian: łàgrema, làgrema

References

• “lacrima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lacrima”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacrima 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)
• lacrima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be bathed in tears: in lacrimas effundi or lacrimis perfundi
    
  • with tears in one's eyes: lacrimis obortis
    
  • with many tears: multis cum lacrimis
    
  • to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse
    
  • hence these tears; there's the rub: hinc illae lacrimae (proverb.) (Ter. And. 1. 1. 99; Cael. 25. 61)
    
  • crocodiles' tears: lacrimae simulatae
    
  • (ambiguous) to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be bathed in tears: in lacrimas effundi or lacrimis perfundi
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: lacrimas tenere non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to move to tears: lacrimas or fletum alicui movere
    
  • (ambiguous) to find relief in tears: dolorem in lacrimas effundere
    

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈla.kri.ma]

Noun

lacrima f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lacrimă

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Spanish

Verb

lacrima

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of lacrimar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of lacrimar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of lacrimar.