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lacrimabilis

lacrimabilis · adj

Worthy of tears, lamentable, mournful

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Where it lives

Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Punica 5 · 0.66/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lăcrĭmābĭlis — Lewis & Short

lăcrĭmābĭlis (lacrŭm-), e, adj.lacrima.

I Worthy of tears, lamentable, mournful (poet. and post-class.): vixque tenet lacrimas, quia nil lacrimabile cernit, Ov. M. 2, 796: gemitus, Verg. A. 3, 39: bellum, id. ib. 7, 604; opp. felix, Am. Vict. Epit. 42, 15: nomen, Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 2, 261.—

II Tear-like: destillatio, Arn. 7, 233: vox, tearful, Vulg. Dan. 6, 20.—Comp.: lacrimabilior series, Ambros. in Psa. 118, Serm. 17, 2: quid lacrimabilius hac stultitia, Salv. Gub. Dei, 6.—Adv.: lăcrĭmābĭlĭter, with tears, mournfully (late Lat.), Hier. Ep. 140, 15.

In the wild

lacrimabilis Statius, Thebais 10.357
lacrimabilem Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 1.M1.p1
lacrimabile Silius Italicus, Punica 4.729
lacrimabilis Silius Italicus, Punica 17.483
lacrimabilis Silius Italicus, Punica 6.109
lacrimabilis Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.401

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Where it came from

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