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lamentatio

wailing5 (P1.+), lamentarius

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Where it lives

Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
Metamorphoses 11 · 2.06/10k
Pro L. Murena 2 · 1.9/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 2 · 1.78/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 4 · 0.71/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lamentatio — de Vaan

lamentatio 'wailing5 (P1.+), lamentarius 'dealing in lamentation' (PL); latrare 'to bark, bay (of dogs)' (P1.+), latratus, -us 'barking' (Acc.-H), oblatratrix 'female yapper, shrew' (PL). Pit. *lamnto- 'howling', *latro- 'barking'. PIE *leh2-mn-to- 'howling, crying5, *leh2-tro- 'barking', IE cognates: Skt. rayati 'barks', YAv. gauro.raiiant- 'shouting songs' (if from PIE *l·); Arm. lam 'to weep, bewail'; Lith. loti, … — [de Vaan, s.v. lamentatio, p. 338]

2. lāmentātĭo — Lewis & Short

lāmentātĭo, ōnis, f.lamentor,

I a wailing, moaning, weeping, lamenting, lamentation (class.; cf.: querela, questus, lamentum, plangor, planctus): lamentatio (est) aegritudo, cum ejulatu, Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 18: aegritudo, lacrumae, lamentatio, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 29: lugubris fletusque maerens, Cic. Tusc. 1, 13, 30: plangore et lamentatione complerimus forum, id. Or. 38, 131; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 21, § 47: cottidianae virginis, id. Font. 17, 47: (funeris), id. Leg. 2, 23, 59; Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 21: nox lamentationis, Vulg. Jer. 9, 19.—

II Transf., plur. (in eccl. Lat.): Lamentationes, title of the book of afflictions, written by the prophet Jeremiah, Vulg. 2 Paral. 35, 25 al.

In the wild

lamentatio Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.5.1
lamentationibus Cicero, Pro Fonteio 47
lamentationes Tacitus, Annales 15.p70
lamentationes Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.42
lamentationibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.25
lamentatione Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 p7

6 of 49 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. lamentatio (scan pp. 338-339; entry #864). Root candidates: *lamnto-, *latro-, *leh2-.

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