different between dolour vs dolent

English

Noun

dolour (countable and uncountable, plural dolours)

1. Alternative spelling of dolor.

Old French

Noun

dolour f (oblique plural dolours, nominative singular dolour, nominative plural dolours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dulur

   qi purroit penser ou ymaginer la dolour et les peynes qe vous, ma douz Dame, endurastes.

   Who could think of or imagine the pain and the suffering that you, my dear lady, have endured.

English

Etymology

From Middle English dolent, from Old French dolent, from Latin dol?ns, present participle of dole? (“to grieve”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??l?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?do?l?nt/

Adjective

dolent (comparative more dolent, superlative most dolent)

1. (archaic) Sad, sorrowful.
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     Poor wretch! who once hath paced that dolent city

     Shall pace it often, doomed beyond all pity,

     With horror ever deepening from the first.

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 148:

     ‘Did you find them all, Uncle Van?’ she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.

Related terms

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin dol?ns, dol?ntem (“hurting, suffering”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /do?lent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /du?len/

Adjective

dolent (feminine dolenta, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)

1. (Valencia) ill
2. evil
3. bad

Verb

dolent

1. present participle of doldre

French

Etymology

From Middle French dolent, from Old French dolent, borrowed from Latin dol?ns, dol?ntem (“hurting, suffering”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.l??/

Adjective

dolent (feminine singular dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)

1. (archaic) mournful

Related terms

• douloir
• douleur

Further reading

• “dolent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Latin dolens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [do?l?nt]
• Hyphenation: do?lent

Adjective

dolent (not comparable)

1. (medicine) painful

Declension

Latin

Verb

dolent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of dole?

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French dolent.

Adjective

dolent m (feminine singular dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)

1. sad

Descendants

• French: dolent

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dol?ns, dol?ntem (“hurting, suffering”).

Adjective

dolent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular dolent or dolente)

1. painful; causing suffering and pain

Declension

Related terms

• doloir
• dolor, dolur

Descendants

• ? English: dolent
• Middle French: dolent
  • French: dolent