plaint

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English plainte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation”), plaint (“lament”), and Old French pleinte (“lamentation”), pleint (“lament”) (modern French plainte), from Medieval Latin plancta (“plaint”), from Latin planctus (“a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation”), from Latin plango (“to beat one's breast, to lament”); see plain. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /pleɪnt/ Rhymes: -eɪnt === Noun === plaint (plural plaints) A complaint. (poetic or archaic) A lament or woeful cry. (archaic) A sad song. (archaic or UK law) An accusation. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== complaint plaintiff plaintive ==== Further reading ==== “plaint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “plaint”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === -platin, Taplin, platin, pliant == French == === Etymology === From Middle French plaint, pleint, from Old French plaint, pleint, from Latin planctus. === Participle === plaint (feminine plainte, masculine plural plaints, feminine plural plaintes) past participle of plaindre ==== Related terms ==== plainte === Anagrams === pilant, pliant