The corpus record — Latin

lamentabilis

lamentabilis · adj

mournful, lamentable

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

lāmentābĭlis — Lewis & Short

lāmentābĭlis, e, adj.lamentor,

I mournful, lamentable (class.).

A Full of sorrow, expressing sorrow: afflictus et jacens, et lamentabili voce deplorans, Cic. Tusc. 2, 13, 32: carmen, Stat. S. 5, 3, 1.—

B Causing sorrow, deplorable: funera sumptuosa et lamentabilia, Cic. Leg. 2, 25, 64: regnum, Verg. A. 2, 4: tributum, Ov. M. 8, 263.

In the wild

lamentabile Statius, Thebais 11.160
lamentabilisque Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.47.6
lamentabile Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.262
lamentabile Statius, Thebais 1.68
lamentabile Statius, Silvae 5.3.1
lamentabile Vergil, Aeneid 2.4

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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