lament
英検準1級嘆く・悲しむ
意味
- (…を)嘆く,嘆き悲しむ《+for(over, about)+名(doing)》
- …を嘆く,嘆き悲しむ
- (…の)嘆き,悲しみ,悲嘆《+for+名》
- 哀歌,挽歌(elegy)
例文
One should not lament over past mistakes too long.
人は過去の失敗のことをあまり長い間くよくよすべきではない。
They lamented the death of their father.
彼らは父親の死を哀しんだ。
"I lost my wallet," lamented John.
「財布を無くした」ジョンは嘆いた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
A back-formation from lamentation or else from Middle French lamenter and its etymon Latin lāmentor (“to wail, weep”), from lāmentum (“wailing, moaning, weeping”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.