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lamentation

noun
/ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/UK

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *leh₂-✻ — “to howl”
  2. derived from lāmentātiō — “wailing, moaning, weeping”
  3. derived from lamentation
  4. inherited from lamentacioun

Definitions

  1. The act of lamenting.

  2. A sorrowful cry

    A sorrowful cry; a lament.

  3. Specifically, mourning.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical…

      lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge

    2. A group of swans.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lamentation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at lamentation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at lamentation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA