lamentar
التعريفات والمعاني
== Catalan ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin lamentāre.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [lə.mənˈta]
IPA(key): (Valencia) [la.menˈtaɾ]
IPA(key): (Northwestern) [la.menˈta]
Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
=== Verb ===
lamentar (first-person singular present lamento, first-person singular preterite lamentí, past participle lamentat); root stress: (Northern) /e̞/; (Balearic, Central, Northwestern, Valencia) /e/
to lament
==== Conjugation ====
==== Related terms ====
lamentació
=== Further reading ===
“lamentar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
“lamentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
“lamentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “lamentar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
== Ido ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Esperanto lamenti, English lament, French lamenter, German lamentieren, Italian lamentare, Spanish lamentar.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /lamenˈtar/
=== Verb ===
lamentar (present tense lamentas, past tense lamentis, future tense lamentos, imperative lamentez, conditional lamentus)
(intransitive) to lament
==== Conjugation ====
== Italian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /la.menˈtar/
Rhymes: -ar
Hyphenation: la‧men‧tàr
=== Verb ===
lamentar (apocopated)
apocopic form of lamentare
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin lāmentāre.
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: la‧men‧tar
=== Verb ===
lamentar (first-person singular present lamento, first-person singular preterite lamentei, past participle lamentado)
to lament
to be sorry
==== Conjugation ====
==== Quotations ====
For quotations using this term, see Citations:lamentar.
=== Further reading ===
“lamentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin lamentāre. Cognate with English lament.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /lamenˈtaɾ/ [la.mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: la‧men‧tar
=== Verb ===
lamentar (first-person singular present lamento, first-person singular preterite lamenté, past participle lamentado)
to lament, to regret
Synonym: sentir
to mourn (often followed by la muerte de or la pérdida de)
Synonyms: llorar, plorar (rare)
==== Conjugation ====
==== Related terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“lamentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025