Translation
to lament, to wail
Word origin
From Latin lamentari, from lamentum, a wailing, which is thought to be imitative of the sound itself. English lament and lamentable come straight from it.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- lamentari
- English cognates
- lament, lamentable
Examples
.
The women lamented beside the grave.
.
He lamented the lost time.
; .
Do not lament; do something.
No -ent- in here. Esperanto's participle suffixes are -ant-, -int-
and -ont-, and none of them is -ent-; there is no root lam- doing any work
either, whatever (lame) may suggest. Lament- is one borrowed piece,
and the fact that it happens to end in letters that look participial is Latin
spelling and nothing more. Compare
momento and , which sit in the same trap.
It is loud grief, not quiet grief. Plori is to
weep, and can be done silently in a corner. is the audible,
demonstrative version: wailing, keening, saying out loud how bad the thing is.
That is why it also carries the second, faintly impatient English sense - to
lament the state of the roads is to complain about them at length, which is what
the third example is refusing to do.
The forms. Usually intransitive, with for what is lamented:
mortintoj. The noun lamento is a lament, and it is also the
name of the literary form; o is the sustained wailing.
Funebro is the mourning itself, the state rather
than the noise.
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