different between lamentation vs sob
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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sob
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s?b/
- (General American) enPR: säb, IPA(key): /s?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Etymology 1
Perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin; compare with Dutch dialect sabben 'to suck'.
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Noun
sob (plural sobs)
- A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
- (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
- 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:
- “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”
- “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
- 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:
Derived terms
- sobby
- sob story
- sob stuff
Translations
Verb
sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)
- (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.
- She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
- (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.
- "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:weep
Translations
Etymology 2
See sop.
Verb
sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)
- To soak.
Anagrams
- BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sop/
Noun
sob m
- reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)
Declension
Further reading
- sob in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- sob in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sob/
- Hyphenation: sob
Adverb
sob
- (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
Synonyms
- malsupren (“down, downwards”)
Antonyms
- supren (“up, upwards”)
- (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sob/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?so.bi/, /sob/
- Hyphenation: sob
Preposition
sob
- under
Antonyms
- sobre
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
sob m (Cyrillic spelling ???)
- reindeer
See also
- irvas/?????
Tzotzil
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??m?/
Noun
sob
- early morning
Adjective
sob
- of early morning
References
- Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Volapük
Noun
sob (nominative plural sobs)
- soap
Declension
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