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Latin
Etymology
From maereō (“to be sad; mourn, grieve”) + -or.
Noun
maeror m (genitive maerōris); third declension
- mourning, grief, lamentation
- Synonyms: lūctus, dēsīderium
- Antonym: lascīvia
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.12.25:
- Maeror in corde virī humiliābit illud et sermōne bonō laetificābitur.
- Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good word he shall be made glad. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
- sorrow
- Synonyms: maestitia, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, aegritūdō, cūra, lūctus
- Antonyms: dēlectātiō, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “maeror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maeror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maeror in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.