lamentとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French lamenter, from Latin lāmentor (“I wail, weep”), from lāmenta (“wailings, laments, moanings”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ləˈmɛnt/
• 韻: -ɛnt

名詞

lament (複数形 laments)

1. An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
2. A song expressing grief.

派生語

• lamentful (まれに)

動詞

lament (三人称単数 現在形 laments, 現在分詞 lamenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 lamented)

1. (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 16:20:

     Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.

2. (transitive) To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
   • 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:

     Euston is so traditionally a part of the London scene that many will lament the passing of the old station when rebuilding is complete in readiness for the new electric service, which will probably be by multiple-units between Euston and Wolverhampton.

   • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:

     By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.

   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:

     One laugh'd at follies, one lamented crimes.

同意語

• bewail

関連する語

Further reading

• “lament” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “lament” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

アナグラム

• Mantle, manlet, mantel, mantle, mental

固有名詞

Lament.

1. Abbreviation of Lamentations.

アナグラム

• malent
• mantel
• mantle
• mental