lamentar

Borrowed from Latin lamentāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [lə.mənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [la.menˈtaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

lamentar (first-person singular present lamento, first-person singular preterite lamentí, past participle lamentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to lament

• lamentació

• “lamentar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lamentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “lamentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lamentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Esperanto lamenti, English lament, French lamenter, German lamentieren, Italian lamentare, Spanish lamentar.

• IPA^(key): /lamenˈtar/

lamentar (present tense lamentas, past tense lamentis, future tense lamentos, imperative lamentez, conditional lamentus)

1. (intransitive) to lament

Borrowed from Latin lāmentāre.

• Hyphenation: la‧men‧tar

lamentar (first-person singular present lamento, first-person singular preterite lamentei, past participle lamentado)

1. to lament
2. to be sorry

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lamentar.

From Latin lamentāre. Cognate with English lament.

• IPA^(key): /lamenˈtaɾ/ [la.mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: la‧men‧tar

lamentar (first-person singular present lamento, first-person singular preterite lamenté, past participle lamentado)

1. to lament, to regret

   Synonym: sentir

2. to mourn (often followed by la muerte de or la pérdida de)

   Synonyms: llorar, plorar (rare)

• “lamentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28