lacrymable

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• lachrymose — 1660s, tear like, from L. lacrimosus tearful, sorrowful, weeping, also causing tears, lamentable, from lacrima tear, a dialect altered borrowing of Gk. dakryma tear, from dakryein to shed tears, from dakry tear, from PIE *dakru /*draku (see TEAR… …   Etymology dictionary