dolent
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English dolent, from Old French dolent, from Latin dolēns, present participle of doleō (“to grieve”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdəʊlənt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdoʊlənt/
Adjective
editdolent (comparative more dolent, superlative most dolent)
- (archaic) Sad, sorrowful.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
- Poor wretch! who once hath paced that dolent city
Shall pace it often, doomed beyond all pity,
With horror ever deepening from the first.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 148:
- ‘Did you find them all, Uncle Van?’ she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.
Related terms
editCatalan
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin dolentem (“hurting, suffering, in pain”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdolent (feminine dolenta, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)
Derived terms
editVerb
editdolent
Further reading
edit- “dolent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “dolent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “dolent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French dolent, from Old French dolent, borrowed from Latin dolentem (“hurting, suffering”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdolent (feminine dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “dolent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editdolent (strong nominative masculine singular dolenter, not comparable)
Declension
editnumber & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist dolent | sie ist dolent | es ist dolent | sie sind dolent | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | dolenter | dolente | dolentes | dolente |
genitive | dolenten | dolenter | dolenten | dolenter | |
dative | dolentem | dolenter | dolentem | dolenten | |
accusative | dolenten | dolente | dolentes | dolente | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der dolente | die dolente | das dolente | die dolenten |
genitive | des dolenten | der dolenten | des dolenten | der dolenten | |
dative | dem dolenten | der dolenten | dem dolenten | den dolenten | |
accusative | den dolenten | die dolente | das dolente | die dolenten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein dolenter | eine dolente | ein dolentes | (keine) dolenten |
genitive | eines dolenten | einer dolenten | eines dolenten | (keiner) dolenten | |
dative | einem dolenten | einer dolenten | einem dolenten | (keinen) dolenten | |
accusative | einen dolenten | eine dolente | ein dolentes | (keine) dolenten |
Latin
editVerb
editdolent
Middle French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French dolent.
Adjective
editdolent m (feminine singular dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)
Descendants
edit- French: dolent
Old French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin dolēns, dolēntem (“hurting, suffering”).
Adjective
editdolent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular dolent or dolente)
Declension
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *delh₁-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with archaic senses
- English terms with quotations
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio links
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adjectives
- Valencian
- Catalan non-lemma forms
- Catalan gerunds
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms borrowed from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French terms with archaic senses
- German terms borrowed from Latin
- German terms derived from Latin
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German adjectives
- German uncomparable adjectives
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- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French adjectives
- Old French terms borrowed from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French adjectives