| 词汇 | plaintive |
| 词源 | plaintive [LME] Plaintive comes via Old French plainte ‘lamentation’, from Latin plangere ‘to beat, lament’. The legal plaintiff [LME] is the same word used as a noun. Plangere also gives us Late Middle English complain (the com- being emphatic), and plangent [M17th]. |
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