different between lamentation vs plaint
lamentation
English
Etymology
Recorded since 1375, from Latin l?ment?ti? (“wailing, moaning, weeping”), from the deponent verb l?mentor, from l?mentum (“wail; wailing”), itself from a Proto-Indo-European *leh?- (“to howl”), presumed ultimately imitative. Replaced Old English cwiþan. Lament is a 16th-century back-formation.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?læm.?n?te?.??n/, /?læm.?n?te?.??n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
lamentation (countable and uncountable, plural lamentations)
- The act of lamenting.
- A sorrowful cry; a lament.
- Specifically, mourning.
- lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
- A group of swans.
Related terms
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lamentation”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Latin l?ment?ti? (“wailing, moaning, weeping”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lamentation f (plural lamentations)
- lamentation, loud/ostentatious plaint
Related terms
Further reading
- “lamentation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Latin l?ment?ti? (“wailing, moaning, weeping”).
Noun
lamentation f (plural lamentations)
- lamentation, loud/ostentatious plaint
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plaint
English
Etymology
From Middle English plainte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation”), plaint (“lament”), and Old French pleinte (“lamentation”), pleint (“lament”) (modern French plainte), from Medieval Latin plancta (“plaint”), from Latin planctus (“a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation”), from Latin plango (“I beat the breast, I lament”); see plain.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ple?nt/
- Rhymes: -e?nt
Noun
plaint (plural plaints)
- (poetic or archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
- 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 11:
- In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint?) that he could never more taste of joy.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 75, [1]
- His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.
- 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 11:
- A complaint.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- (archaic) A sad song.
- (archaic or Britain law) An accusation.
- Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
Related terms
- complaint
- plaintiff
- plaintive
Further reading
- plaint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- plaint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- -platin, Taplin, platin, pliant
French
Etymology
From Middle French plaint, pleint, from Old French plaint, pleint, from Latin planctus.
Verb
plaint m (feminine singular plainte, masculine plural plaints, feminine plural plaintes)
- past participle of plaindre
Related terms
- plainte
Anagrams
- pilant, pliant
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