maerentium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →maerens, (gen.), maerentis:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sad, melancholy; mournful, gloomy woeful, doleful; mourning, lamenting (L+S);
gen. pl. (all) - Entry →maereo, maerere, -, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
grieve, be sad, mourn; bewail/mourn for/lament; utter mournfully;
gen. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...quod adridemus ridentibus et contristat nos turba maerentium et efferuescimus ad aliena certamina. Quae non sunt irae..."X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...iuvenes pios filios perdiderunt, eminere et occupare quendam maerentium principatum differentia novae calamitatis affectat, quae sola omnium supra..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...moenia ac tecta, quaque longissime prospectari poterat, maerentium turba et rogitantium inter se silentione an voce aliqua egredientem..."
