lamentatio

Latin

Etymology

lāmentor +‎ -tiō

Noun

lāmentātiō f (genitive lāmentātiōnis); third declension

1. lamentation, wailing, weeping, moaning

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lāmentātiō	lāmentātiōnēs
genitive	lāmentātiōnis	lāmentātiōnum
dative	lāmentātiōnī	lāmentātiōnibus
accusative	lāmentātiōnem	lāmentātiōnēs
ablative	lāmentātiōne	lāmentātiōnibus
vocative	lāmentātiō	lāmentātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: lamentació
• → English: lamentation
• French: lamentation
• Galician: lamentación
• Italian: lamentazione
• Occitan: lamentacion
• → Polish: lamentacja
• Portuguese: lamentação
• Romanian: lamentație
• Spanish: lamentación

References

• “lamentatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lamentatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lamentatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lamentatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.