different between repine vs mourn

English

Etymology

Believed to have been formed (with uncertainty, due to the unusual formation) as re- +? pine, with the verb giving rise to the noun (first attested in 1529 and 1593 respectively); compare the Middle English verb repinen (“(uncertain) to cause trouble to someone, grieve”) (from p?nen (“to cause pain, grieve, hurt, trouble; to starve, pine; to torment, torture”), from Old English p?nian), which may be related.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?p?n?, IPA^(key): /???pa?n/
• (General American) enPR: r?p?n?, IPA^(key): /???pa?n/, /??-/
• Hyphenation: re?pine

Verb

repine (third-person singular simple present repines, present participle repining, simple past and past participle repined)

1. (transitive) To fail; to wane.
2. (intransitive, now literary) To complain; to regret. [from early 16th c.]

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• repyne (obsolete, 16th century)

Derived terms

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “†re?pine, n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “repine, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• “repine, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2009
• “repine, v.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2009

Anagrams

• Priene, perine

English

Alternative forms

• morne (14th - 15th centuries)

Etymology

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnan?. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: môrn, IPA^(key): /m??n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA^(key): /m??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: môn, IPA^(key): /m??n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA^(key): /m??n/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: m?rn, IPA^(key): /mo(?)?n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA^(key): /m??n/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /mo?n/; (rare) enPR: mo?orn, IPA^(key): /m??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophones: morne, mourne; morn (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

mourn (third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

   • Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

2. (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
3. (intransitive) To wear mourning.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mourn (countable and uncountable, plural mourns)

1. (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
2. A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

See also

Anagrams

• Munro, munro