плачевный

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Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плачевьнъ (plačevĭnŭ). By surface analysis, плач (plač) +‎ -ев (-ev) +‎ -ный (-nyj).

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Adjective

плаче́вный (plačévnyj)

  1. deplorable, lamentable, pitiable, plaintive, sorry
    • 1790, Александр Радищев , “Медное”, in Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву; English translation from Leo Wiener, transl., A Journey From St. Petersburg to Moscow, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958:
      Она́ де́ржит младе́нца, плаче́вный плод обма́на и́ли наси́лия, но живо́й сле́пок прелюбоде́йного его́ отца́.
      Oná déržit mladénca, plačévnyj plod obmána íli nasílija, no živój slépok preljubodéjnovo jevó otcá.
      She is holding a little one, the lamentable fruit of deception or violence, but the living image of his lascivious father.

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