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lacrimă
tear (teardrop) /ˈla.kri.mə/
noun#2212 most common
Also: drop of tears
Example sentences
O lacrimă cade pe obrazul ei.
A tear falls on her cheek.
Copilul are o lacrimă în ochi.
The child has a tear in his eye.
Ea și-a șters lacrimile cu batista.
She wiped her tears with the handkerchief.
La despărțire, nu și-a putut stăpâni lacrimile.
At the farewell, she could not hold back her tears.
O singură lacrimă i-a alunecat pe obraz, trădând durerea pe care încerca s-o ascundă.
A single tear slid down her cheek, betraying the pain she was trying to hide.
Poetul a scris despre lacrima tăcută ce se preface în cuvinte, martoră a unei suferințe nerostite.
The poet wrote about the silent tear that turns into words, witness to an unspoken suffering.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lacrima | lacrimile |
| Genitive | lacrimii | lacrimilor |
| Accusative | lacrima | lacrimile |
| Vocative | lacrimo | lacrimilor |
Word family
lăcrimato shed tears, to weep
lacrimallacrimal, of the tear glands
înlăcrimattearful, in tears
lacrimogencausing tears, as in gaz lacrimogen (tear gas)
Etymology
Lacrimă comes from Latin lacrima, meaning tear. The Latin word itself is a later form of an older dacrima, altered by dissimilation from the initial d to l. Latin lacrima and English tear both trace back to the same Proto-Indo-European root for weeping.
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