Translation
to groan, to moan; to sigh
Word origin
From Latin gemere ('to groan, to sigh'), which lives on as Italian gemere and French gémir. The Latin verb was itself an imitation of the sound, which is why so many languages have something close to it.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- gemere
Examples
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The sick man groaned in his bed.
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He sighed and closed the book.
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The old door groaned when we opened it.
is a sound, not a mood: the low noise of pain, effort or resignation. Esperanto uses it for the sigh as well as the groan, so context does the sorting, and it stretches happily to objects, a door or a ship or a floorboard. The noun is o, and i with the - prefix is the single sharp sigh that escapes you rather than the sustained one. Do not confuse it with plori, which needs tears.
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