lamentation
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) The act of lamenting.
- (countable, uncountable) A sorrowful cry; a lament.
- (countable, uncountable) Specifically, mourning.
- (countable, uncountable) lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
- (countable, uncountable) A group of swans.
Synonyms
funeral dirge
crying aloud
cry of lamentation
deep anguish
thrénodie
words of grief
Translations
lamentation
lamento
lamento
Wehklage
θρήνος
lamentaçãoPronounced as (IPA)
/ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/
Etymology
In summary
Recorded since 1375, from Latin lāmentātiō (“wailing, moaning, weeping”), from the deponent verb lāmentor, from lāmentum (“wail; wailing”), itself from a Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to howl”), presumed ultimately imitative. Replaced Old English cwiþan. Lament is a 16th-century back-formation.
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