dolent

Borrowed from Old French dolent, from Latin dolēns, present participle of doleō (“to grieve”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊlənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊlənt/

dolent (comparative more dolent, superlative most dolent)

1. (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 2011, p. 148:

     ‘Did you find them all, Uncle Van?’ she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin dolēns, dolēntem (“hurting, suffering”).

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /doˈlent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /duˈlen/

dolent (feminine dolenta, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)

1. bad

dolent

1. present participle of doldre

From Middle French dolent, from Old French dolent, borrowed from Latin dolēns, dolēntem (“hurting, suffering”).

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.lɑ̃/

dolent (feminine singular dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)

1. (archaic) mournful

• douloir
• douleur

• “dolent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin dolens.

• IPA^(key): [doˈlɛnt]
• Hyphenation: do‧lent

dolent (not comparable)

1. (medicine) painful

dolent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of doleō

From Old French dolent.

dolent m (feminine singular dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)

1. sad

• French: dolent

Borrowed from Latin dolēns, dolēntem (“hurting, suffering”).

dolent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular dolent or dolente)

1. painful; causing suffering and pain

• doloir
• dolor, dolur

• English: dolent (borrowed)
• Middle French: dolent
  • French: dolent