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plaint

Meaninglamentation

Common meaning: a lament

Journey through time

  1. Latinplanctus‘lamenta- tion’source
  2. Late Latinplanctasource
  3. Old Frenchpleintesource
  4. Middle Englishpleintesource
  5. Englishmeaning shiftslamenta- tion → a lamentplaint‘a lament’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin planctus ‘lamentation’.

Roots

Related words

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