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 Translation for 'lamentation' from English to Latin
NOUN   a lamentation | lamentations
SYNO lament | lamentation | mourning | ...
maeror {m}lamentation
lamentatio {f}lamentation
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Translation for 'lamentation' from English to Latin

lamentation
maeror {m}

lamentatio {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • Seneca the Younger writes that she "lies with wasted jaw" by Cocytus, the Underworld river of lamentation.
  • It records several parables and teachings told by Jesus Christ and his lamentation over the city of Jerusalem.
  • Wailing and singing in lamentation, is as old as funerals, going back to Homeric, Estruscan, and biblical times Keening has strong parallels in the Middle East and elsewhere.
  • Cocytus also makes an appearance in John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost". In Book Two, Milton speaks of "Cocytus, named of lamentation loud / Heard on the rueful stream".
  • Both the play and the story in Holinshed's "Chronicles" were later adapted into a broadside ballad, "The complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of Feversham in Kent".

  • Sheikh Abd al-Fattah al-Zoubi left a number of poetic compositions, most of which were about religious educational poetry, as well as lamentation and praise of the sheikhs of and .
  • Journalist Othman Lahiani wrote a lamentation poem dedicated to his friend Cherak on 20 November.
  • Translated from Māori, it means place of ("Ō") greeting, wailing or lamentation ("mihi").
  • This poem is considered the most significant of a series of poems that were written in the classical tradition of "rithā’" (which denotes both lamentation and a literary genre in itself) by Andalusi poets who had been inspired by the "Reconquista".
  • "1000 Nights" was written as lamentation of Ed Sheeran on his gruelling life on the road while he embarks in different cities each day.

  • (or lamentation) are set, without any "ritornellos," for soprano, two unspecified instruments and basso continuo.
  • The Spanish poet Gaspar Núñez de Arce wrote "Última lamentación de Lord Byron" ("The last lamentation of Lord Byron"), a long soliloquy on the miseries of the world, the existence of a superior, omnipotent being, politics, etc.
  • The Israeli song "Prague", written by Shalom Hanoch and performed by Arik Einstein at the Israel Song Festival of 1969, was a lamentation on the fate of the city after the Soviet invasion and mentions Jan Palach's Self-immolation.
  • Patea composed 55 poems whose lyrics and harmonies expressed deeply traditional Mizo sentiments. His lyrics are mainly about lamentation, praise and heavenly sentiments.
  • Some fragments have been attributed to Pamprepius, among them a panegyric to Theagenes and a lamentation on leaving Athens.

  • During the Third Dynasty of Ur, the Sumerian city-state of Lagash was said to have had sixty-two "lamentation priests" who were accompanied by 180 vocalists and instrumentalists.
  • Alexion (died 44 BCE) was an ancient physician. His name and profession are known from a lamentation on his sudden death, authored by his close friend Cicero. His name suggests that he was Greek.
  • "Man, in this world of seven hues, lute-like is ever afire with lamentation; yearning for a kindred spirit burns him inwardly", Iqbal opens.
  • "The Dead Christ Mourned" (also known as "Lamentation of Christ", "Pietà with the Three Marys", or "The Three Marys") is an oil painting on canvas of [...] by Annibale Carracci.
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