The corpus record — Latin

lacrimosus

lacrimosus · adj

full of tears, tearful, weeping

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Metamorphoses 6 · 1.12/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lăcrĭmōsus — Lewis & Short

lăcrĭmōsus (lacrŭm-, lacrўm-), a, um, adj.lacrima,

I full of tears, tearful, weeping (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: lumina (i. e. oculi), Ov. M. 1, 8, 111: oculi, Plin. 38, 6, 17, § 34.—

II That excites to tears, lamentable, doleful: fumus, Ov. M. 10, 6; Hor. S. 1, 5, 80; cf.: caepis odor lacrimosus, Plin. 19, 6, 32, § 101: Trojae funera, Hor. C. 1, 8, 14: bellum, id. ib. 1, 21, 13: carmen, plaintive, Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 35: poëmata, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 67.—

B Transf., weeping, dropping, exuding.—Act., of plants: vites, Plin. 17, 28, 47, § 261.—Pass., of the sap: lacrimosum electrum, Verg. Cir. 434; cf. Ov. M. 2, 364.—Hence, adv.: lăcrĭmō-sē, with tears (post-class.), Gell. 10, 3, 4.

In the wild

lacrimoso Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.6
lacrimosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p5
lacrimosis Vergil, Aeneid 11.274
lacrimosa Horace, Carmina 1.8.14
lacrimosus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.1.4
lacrimosus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.6.p2

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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