lamentation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/|/ˌlæm.ɪnˈteɪ.ʃən/    美 /ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/|/ˌlæm.ɪnˈteɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of lamenting. countable,uncountable
    — About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
  2. A sorrowful cry; a lament. countable,uncountable
  3. Specifically, mourning. countable,uncountable
  4. 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
  5. A group of swans. countable,uncountable

词形变化

lamentations plural

词汇关系

相关词
lament lamentable lamented

词源

Recorded since 1375, from Middle English lamentacioun, from Middle French lamentation and its etymon 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. By surface analysis, lament + -ation.
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