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Word: Lacrymose
Sep. 25th, 2024 04:13 pmOkapi-brain is not being kind to okapi today so Wednesday's word is...
...lacrymose.
[lak-ruh-mohs]
adjective
1. given to tears or weeping : tearful
2. tending to cause tears : mournful
examples
"I will no longer read what people may now write about me," he bursts out in a fit of lachrymose querulousness. FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIAN by Frederick Niecks (1902)
Ruth had her arms about the little old woman and her own voice was caressing if not lachrymose. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson (1917)
origin
First recorded in 1655–65; from Latin lacrimōsus, equivalent to lacrim(a) “tear” (lachrymal ) + -ōsus -ose
...lacrymose.
[lak-ruh-mohs]
adjective
1. given to tears or weeping : tearful
2. tending to cause tears : mournful
examples
"I will no longer read what people may now write about me," he bursts out in a fit of lachrymose querulousness. FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIAN by Frederick Niecks (1902)
Ruth had her arms about the little old woman and her own voice was caressing if not lachrymose. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson (1917)
origin
First recorded in 1655–65; from Latin lacrimōsus, equivalent to lacrim(a) “tear” (lachrymal ) + -ōsus -ose