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lachrymose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lachrymose \Lach"ry*mose`\,
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[L. lacrymosus, better lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma) a tear, for older dacrima, akin to E. tear. See Tear the secretion.] Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy.
--Lam -- Lach"ry*mose`ly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "tear-like," from Latin lacrimosus "tearful, sorrowful, weeping," also "causing tears, lamentable," from lacrima "tear," a dialect-altered borrowing of Greek dakryma "tear," from dakryein "to shed tears," from dakry "tear," from PIE *dakru- (see tear (n.1)). Meaning "given to tears, tearful" is first attested 1727; meaning "of a mournful character" is from 1822.\n
\nThe -d- to -l- alteration in Latin is the so-called "Sabine -L-"; compare Latin olere "smell," from root of odor, and Ulixes, the Latin form of Greek Odysseus. The Medieval Latin practice of writing -ch- for -c- before Latin -r- also altered anchor, pulchritude, sepulchre. The -y- is pedantic, from belief in a Greek origin. Middle English had lacrymable "tearful" (mid-15c.).
Wiktionary
a. tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
WordNet
Usage examples of "lachrymose".
If any of the three of them had come, it might have put the kibosh on this lachrymose morning.
The Brown of coffins was as lachrymose and gently morbid as the most bereaved widow could wish to encounter.
This lachrymose lie is a lamentable lollapalooza launched by the lunatic left.