dolent
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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
[edit]dolent (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
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin dolentem (“hurting, suffering, in pain”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dolent (feminine dolenta, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]dolent
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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French dolent, from Old French dolent, borrowed from Latin dolentem (“hurting, suffering”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dolent (feminine dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “dolent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dolent (strong nominative masculine singular dolenter, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]number & 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
[edit]Verb
[edit]dolent
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French dolent.
Adjective
[edit]dolent m (feminine singular dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)
Descendants
[edit]- French: dolent
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin dolēns, dolēntem (“hurting, suffering”).
Adjective
[edit]dolent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular dolent or dolente)
Declension
[edit]Case | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
---|---|---|---|---|
singular | subject | dolenz | dolente | dolent |
oblique | dolent | |||
plural | subject | dolent | dolentes | |
oblique | dolents |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[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
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- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio pronunciation
- 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 pronunciation
- 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