lamentation
/ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Indo-European *léh₂mn̥tom Proto-Italic *lāmentom Latin lāmentum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -or Latin lāmentor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin lāmentātiōder. Middle French lamentationbor. ▲ Latin lāmentātiōlbor. Middle English lamentacioun English lamentation 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/
- British English: /ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/