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(Inglese)

  1. A complaint.
  2. (archaic, poetic) A lament or woeful cry.
  3. (archaic) A sad song.
  4. (UK, archaic) An accusation.

Pronunciato come (IPA)
/pleɪnt/
Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio
plainte
In summary

From Middle English plainte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation”), plaint (“lament”), and Old French pleinte (“lamentation”), pleint (“lament”) (modern French plainte), from Medieval Latin plancta (“plaint”), from Latin planctus (“a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation”), from Latin plango (“I beat the breast, I lament”); see plain.

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