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LAMENTATION
Definition of LAMENTATION
noun
The act of lamenting.
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Where it comes from
Recorded since 1375, from Middle English lamentacioun, from Middle French lamentation and its etymon Latin lāmentātiō (“wailing, moaning, weeping”), from the deponent verb lāmentor, from lāmentum (“wail; wailing”), itself from a Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to howl”), presumed ultimately imitative. Replaced Old English cwiþan. By surface analysis, lament + -ation.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,130)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LAMENTATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
Built from these letters
LAMENTATION starts with L and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAEILMNNOTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, N and T appear more than once.
Words that start LAMENTA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LAMENTATION?
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