lament.
lamentation, lament (sorrowful cry)
Meaning & usage
lamentation, lament (sorrowful cry)
lament, threnody (mournful song expressing sadness over someone's death or some unpleasant event)
threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Indo-European *léh₂mn̥tom Proto-Italic *lāmentom Latin lāmentumlbor. Polish lament Learned borrowing from Latin lāmentum.
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