l 1 a 1 m 3 e 1 n 1 t 1 a 1 t 1 i 1 o 1 n 1
11 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a cry of sorrow and grief
noun the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
originRecorded 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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