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語源

From 中期英語 mornen, mournen, from 古期英語 murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).

発音

• (General American) enPR: môrn, IPA: /mɔɹn/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: môn, IPA: /mɔːn/

• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mōrn, IPA: /mo(ː)ɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /moən/
• (rare, rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA: /mʊɹn/
• (rare, non-rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA: /mʊən/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• 異形同音異義語: mourne; morn, morne (horse–hoarse merger)

動詞

mourn (third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned)

1. (ambitransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

   Synonyms: grieve, lament, weep; see also Thesaurus:be sad, Thesaurus:lament

   For two months, she mourned her father's passing.

   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 23:2:

     Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nightmare:

     Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.

2. (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
3. (intransitive) To wear mourning.

派生語

名詞

mourn (countable and uncountable, plural mourns)

1. (now literary) Sorrow, grief.

   Synonyms: dejection; see also Thesaurus:sadness

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:

     Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

参考

アナグラム

• Munro, munro