lacrima – Latin noun declension

Noun: lacrima
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singular	lacrima
Plural	lacrimae

Genitive

Singular	lacrimae
Plural	lacrimārum

Dative

Singular	lacrimae
Plural	lacrimīs

Accusative

Singular	lacrimam
Plural	lacrimās

Ablative

Singular	lacrimā
Plural	lacrimīs

Vocative

Singular	lacrima
Plural	lacrimae

Sample Sentences

Percussit īlicō animum: “Attat, hoc illud est — / hinc illae lacrimae, haec illāst misericordiā!” (Immediately it struck my mind: “Aha, this is what that is all about — hence those tears, this is the reason for that pity!”

(Simo suddenly realizes why his son is so openly emotional; hinc illae lacrimae has become proverbial to mean “that’s the real reason for the sadness/problem.”)) [166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 125–126]
[...] Per ego hās lacrimās dextramque tuam tē [...]. (“I [who] through these tears and [by] your own right hand”) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.314]
“sistite vos lacrimas, ipsa medebor” ait. (“Hold back your tears,” she said. “I will heal him myself.”) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti]

Nouns inflected like lacrima

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *dáḱru
3. From Old Latin dacrima, dacruma, perhaps from Proto-Italic *d(r)(k)akrunā, from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru-, from earlier compound *dr̥ḱ-h₂eḱru- (“eye bitter”).

Verbs referencing "lacrima"

Latin Nouns laurus, Italian Nouns lacrima, French Nouns larme, Galician Nouns lágrima, Portuguese Nouns lágrima, Spanish Nouns lágrima, Romanian Nouns lacrimă, Latvian Nouns asara, Danish Nouns tåre, Asturian Nouns llárima, English Nouns larmier, Irish Nouns deoir, Old Spanish Nouns lagrema.