lachrymose

• adj.泣く、涙を流す、悲しむ

ラテン語のlacrima「涙」、PIE*dakru「泣く」が語源で、語源はtearと同じ。

lachrymose

lachrymose: see tear

lachrymose (adj.)

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.

The -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.).

1. She waxed lachrymose .

彼女は悲しくなった。

2.He was by turns devout and obscene，merry and lachrymose .

彼は敬虔だったり猥褻だったり、喜んだり、涙を流したりしている。

3.Maybe if you moved away from Lake Lachrymose you might feel better.

この悲しい湖から離れると少し楽になるかもしれません。