lacrimosus

• lacrumōsus (pre-Classical)
• lacrymōsus, lachrymōsus (post-classical)

From lacrima +‎ -ōsus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫa.krɪˈmoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [la.kriˈmɔː.s̬us]

lacrimōsus (feminine lacrimōsa, neuter lacrimōsum, adverb lacrimōsē); first/second-declension adjective

1. weeping, full of tears
   • 13th century, Stabat Mater, stanza 1:

     Stabat mater dolorosa
     Iuxta crucem lacrimosa,
     Dum pendebat filius.

     The Mother stood sorrowful
     By the cross, weeping,
     While the Son was hanging.

2. lamentable, causing weeping
   • From the Dies irae sequence (stanza 18) of the Catholic Requiem mass:

     Lacrimosa dies illa,
     Qua resurget ex favilla,
     Iudicandus homo reus.
     Huic ergo parce, Deus.

     Tearful [will be] that day,
     on which from the glowing embers will arise
     the guilty man who is to be judged.
     Then spare him, O God.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “lacrimosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lacrimosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacrimosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.