mourn
verbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//mɔːn//
- États-Unis//mɔɹn//
- //mo(ː)ɹn//
- //moən//
- //mʊɹn//
To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
verbe
- 1
To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
For two months, she mourned her father's passing.
She mourned the loss of her independence.
We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- 2
To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially.
In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.
- 3
To utter in a sorrowful manner.
- 4
To wear mourning.
Étymologie
From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
nom
- 1
Sorrow, grief.
Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle
- 2
A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
Formes
- pluriel
- mourns
- passé
- mourned
- participe passé
- mourned
- participe présent
- mourning
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- mourns
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