• adj. 愛哭的，易流淚的；悲哀的

來自拉丁語lacrima,眼淚，來自PIE*dakru,流淚，詞源同tear,字母d,l音變。

lachrymose

lachrymose: see tear

lachrymose (adj.)

1660s, "tear-like," from Latin lacrimosus "tearful, sorrowful, weeping," also "causing tears, lamentable," from lacrima "tear," a dialect-altered borrowing of Greek dakryma "tear," from dakryein "to shed tears," from dakry "tear," from PIE *dakru- (see tear (n.1)). Meaning "given to tears, tearful" is first attested 1727; meaning "of a mournful character" is from 1822.

The -d- to -l- alteration in Latin is the so-called "Sabine -L-"; compare Latin olere "smell," from root of odor, and Ulixes, the Latin form of Greek Odysseus. The Medieval Latin practice of writing -ch- for -c- before Latin -r- also altered anchor, pulchritude, sepulchre. The -y- is pedantic, from belief in a Greek origin. Middle English had lacrymable "tearful" (mid-15c.).

1. She waxed lachrymose.

她傷心起來了。

來自辭典例句

2. He was by turns devout and obscene, merry and lachrymose.

他時而虔誠時而淫穢, 時而歡天喜地,時而凄然淚下.

來自辭典例句

3. Maybe if you moved away from Lake Lachrymose you might feel better.

也許搬離這悲哀之湖會讓你好受一些.

來自電影對白