lacrima

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.kri.ma/

lacrima (plural lacrimas)

1. tear (from the eye, usually due to crying)

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.kri.ma/

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• Rhymes: -akrima
• Hyphenation: là‧cri‧ma

From Latin lacrima.

lacrima f (plural lacrime)

1. tear (drop of fluid secreted from the eyes)

• lagrima (archaic or poetic)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lacrima

1. inflection of lacrimare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• lacrima in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• calarmi

• lacruma, dacrima, dacruma (pre-Classical)
• lacryma, lachryma (post-classical)

From Old Latin dacrima, dacruma, perhaps from Proto-Italic *d(r)(k)akrunā, from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru-, from earlier compound *dr̥ḱ-h₂eḱru- (“eye bitter”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.krɪ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.kri.ma]

lacrima f (genitive lacrimae); first declension

1. (literally) a tear (drop of liquid from crying)
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 125–126:

     Percussit īlicō animum: “Attat, hoc illud est — / hinc illae lacrimae, haec illāst misericordiā!”

     Immediately it struck my mind: “Aha, this is what that is all about — hence those tears, this is the reason for that pity!”
     (Simo suddenly realizes why his son is so openly emotional; hinc illae lacrimae has become proverbial to mean “that’s the real reason for the sadness/problem.”)

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.314:

     “[...] Per ego hās lacrimās dextramque tuam tē [...].”

     “I [who] through these tears and [by] your own right hand”

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti:

     “sistite vos lacrimas, ipsa medebor” ait.

     “Hold back your tears,” she said. “I will heal him myself.”

2. (transferred sense) a tear or gumdrop exuding from plants

First-declension noun.

• “lacrima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lacrima”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lacrima", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lacrima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be bathed in tears: in lacrimas effundi or lacrimis perfundi
    
  • with tears in one's eyes: lacrimis obortis
    
  • with many tears: multis cum lacrimis
    
  • to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse
    
  • hence these tears; there's the rub: hinc illae lacrimae (proverb.) (Ter. And. 1. 1. 99; Cael. 25. 61)
    
  • crocodiles' tears: lacrimae simulatae
    
  • (ambiguous) to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be bathed in tears: in lacrimas effundi or lacrimis perfundi
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: lacrimas tenere non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to move to tears: lacrimas or fletum alicui movere
    
  • (ambiguous) to find relief in tears: dolorem in lacrimas effundere
    

• IPA^(key): [ˈla.kri.ma]

lacrima f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lacrimă

lacrima

1. inflection of lacrimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative