The corpus record — Latin

lamentum

lamentum · n

a wailing, moaning, weeping, lamentation, lament

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Where it lives

De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lāmentum — Lewis & Short

lāmentum, i, n.perh. for clamentum, from clamo,

I a wailing, moaning, weeping, lamentation, lament (class., only in plur.): virum, Lucr. 6, 242 Lachm.: negat se velle mortem suam dolore amicorum et lamentis vacare, Cic. de Sen. 20, 73: se lamentis lacrimisque dedere, id. Tusc. 2, 21, 48: lamentis lacrimisque extinctos prosequi, Liv. 25, 38: lamenta ac lacrimas cito ponunt, Tac. G. 27: in sordibus, lamentis luctuque jacēre, Cis. Pis. 36, 88: lamentis gemituque et femineo ululatu Tecta fremunt, Verg. A. 4, 667: per lamenta ... muliebriter ferre, Tac. Agr. 28.—Transf., of hens, Plin. 10, 55, 76, § 155.—Sing.: assume super Syrum lamentum, Vulg. Ezech. 27, 2; id. Jer. 9, 20 al.

In the wild

lamentis Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.989
lamentis Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.711
lamentis Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 p39
lamentis Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.48
lamentis Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.38.8
lamentisque Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 10.5.7

6 of 27 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. lamentum (scan p. 363; entry #5697).

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