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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *lāmentom, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (expressive root։ to howl, cry, bark).[1] Cognate with lātrō, Ancient Greek λῆρος (lêros), λάλος (lálos), λάσκω (láskō).
Noun
lāmentum n (genitive lāmentī); second declension
- wailing, moaning, weeping, crying, shrieking
- lamentation, lament
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.667–668:
- Lāmentīs gemitūque et fēmineō ululātū / tēcta fremunt .
- The homes howl with laments, sorrow, and women’s wailing.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “lamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lamentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lāmenta, -ōrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 324-5