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English

Etymology

From French lamenter < Latin lāmentor (“I wail, weep”) < lāmenta (“wailings, laments, moanings”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, seen also in latrare.

Pronunciation

Noun

lament (plural laments)

  1. An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.
  2. A song expressing grief.

Verb

to lament (third-person singular simple present laments, present participle lamenting, simple past and past participle lamented)

  1. (intransitive) To express grief.
  2. (transitive) To bewail.

Synonyms

Translations

express grief
  • Armenian: գանգատվել hy(hy) (gangatvel), տրտնջալ hy(hy) (trtnǰal)
  • Ewe: fa konyi
  • Finnish: valittaa fi(fi)
  • French: se lamenter fr(fr)
  • Icelandic: harma is(is), syrgja is(is)
bewail

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French

Verb

lament

  1. third-person plural present indicative of lamer.
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of lamer.

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