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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French lamentable, from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lamentable (comparative more lamentable, superlative most lamentable)
- Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:
- In what a lamentable caſe were I,
If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?
- 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
- Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:lamentable
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[edit]Translations
[edit]deplorable
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Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lamentable m or f (masculine and feminine plural lamentables)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lamentable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lamentable (plural lamentables)
- lamentable; awful; deplorable
- Synonyms: déplorable, pitoyable, minable
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lamentable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”). Cognate with English lamentable.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lamentable m or f (masculine and feminine plural lamentables)
- lamentable, regrettable
- 2001, Julio Montes Ponce de León, Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenido, Univ Pontifica Comillas →ISBN, page 64
- Es lamentable el trato que sufren con frecuencia los árboles recién plantados en las proximidades de los colegios.
- The treatment that newly planted trees in the vicinity of schools often suffer is lamentable.
- 2001, Julio Montes Ponce de León, Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenido, Univ Pontifica Comillas →ISBN, page 64
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- (see for more terms) lamentar
Further reading
[edit]- “lamentable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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