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lamentation
late 14c., from L.
lamentationem
(nom.
lamentatio
) "wailing, moaning, weeping," from
lamentatus,
pp. of
lamentari,
from
lamentum
"a wailing," from PIE base
*la-
"to shout, cry," probably ultimately imitative. Replaced O.E.
cwițan
.
