lamentation.
The act of lamenting.
Meaning & usage
The act of lamenting.
A sorrowful cry; a lament.
Specifically, mourning.
lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
A group of swans.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Indo-European *léh₂mn̥tom Proto-Italic *lāmentom Latin lāmentum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -or Latin lāmentor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin lāmentātiōder. Middle French lamentationbor. ▲ Latin lāmentātiōlbor. Middle English lamentacioun English lamentation Recorded since 1375, from Middle English lamentacioun, from Middle French lamentation and its etymon Latin lāmentātiō (“wailing, moaning, weeping”), from the deponent verb lāmentor, from lāmentum (“wail; wailing”), itself from a Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to howl”), presumed ultimately imitative. Replaced Old English cwiþan. By surface analysis, lament + -ation.
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