lamentable

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French lamentable, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈmɛn.tə.bəl/, /ˈlæm.ən.tə.bəl/

Adjective

lamentable (comparative more lamentable, superlative most lamentable)

1. Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lamentable

Derived terms

• lamentability
• lamentableness
• lamentably

Related terms

• lament

Translations

deplorable

• Arabic: مُؤْسِف (ar) (muʔsif)
• Bulgarian: печален (bg) (pečalen)
• Catalan: lamentable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可悲 (zh) (kěbēi)

• Finnish: valitettava (fi)
• French: lamentable (fr), déplorable (fr)
• German: beklagenswert (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: lamentabile
• Japanese: 嘆かわしい (なげかわしい, nagekawashii)
• Latin: flēbilis
• Norman: lamentabl'ye m or f
• Portuguese: lamentável (pt)
• Russian: плаче́вный (ru) (plačévnyj), приско́рбный (ru) (priskórbnyj)
• Spanish: lamentable (es)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [lə.mənˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [la.menˈta.ble]

Adjective

lamentable m or f (masculine and feminine plural lamentables)

1. lamentable, regrettable

Derived terms

• lamentablement

Related terms

• lamentar

Further reading

• “lamentable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.mɑ̃.tabl/

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• Homophone: lamentables
• Rhymes: -abl

Adjective

lamentable (plural lamentables)

1. lamentable; awful; deplorable

Derived terms

• lamentablement

Related terms

• lamenter

Further reading

• “lamentable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamenˈtable/ [la.mẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞le]

Adjective

lamentable m or f (masculine and feminine plural lamentables)

1. lamentable, regrettable
   • 2001, Julio Montes Ponce de León, Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenido, Univ Pontifica Comillas →ISBN, page 64

     Es lamentable el trato que sufren con frecuencia los árboles recién plantados en las proximidades de los colegios.

     The treatment that newly planted trees in the vicinity of schools often suffer is lamentable.

Derived terms

• lamentablemente

Related terms

• lamentar

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001