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lach⋅ry⋅mose
[lak-ruh-mohs] 
rəˌmoʊs
–adjective
| 1. | suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful. |
| 2. | given to shedding tears readily; tearful. |
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| lach·ry·mose (lāk'rə-mōs') adj.
[Latin lacrimōsus, from lacrima, tear; see lachrymal.] lach'ry·mose'ly adv., lach'ry·mos'i·ty (-mŏs'ĭ-tē) n. |
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Lachrymose
Lach"ry*mose`\, a. [L. lacrymosus, better lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma) a tear, for older dacrima, akin to E. tear. See Tear the secretion.] Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. --Lamb. -- Lach"ry*mose`ly, adv.
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lachrymose
1661, "tear-like," from L. lacrimosus "tearful, sorrowful," from lacrima "tear," a dialect-altered borrowing of Gk. dakryma "tear," from dakryein "to shed tears," from dakry "tear," from PIE *dakru-/*draku- (see tear (n.)). Meaning "given to tears, tearful" is first attested 1727; meaning "of a mournful character" is from 1822. The -d- to -l- alteration in L. is the so-called "Sabine -L-," cf. L. olere "smell," from root of odor, and Ulixes, the L. form of Gk. Odysseus.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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