Noun
dolor m (genitive dolōris); third declension
- pain, ache, hurt
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.419–420:
- “Hunc ego sī potuī tantum spērāre dolōrem, / et perferre, soror, poterō.”
- [Dido speaks to Anna:] “Supposing that I was able to anticipate this much pain, my sister, so too I shall be able to endure it.”
(In context, Dido's character is feeling a range of emotion: the pain of heartbreak, grief over lost love and losing an imagined future together, and anger toward her faithless lover Aeneas and the gods he said have ordered him to leave Carthage.)
- anguish, grief, sorrow
- indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeance
Descendants
- Asturian: dolor
- Catalan: dol, dolor
- Calabrese: doluri
- → Proto-Brythonic: *dolʉr
- → English: dol
- Esperanto: doloro
- Old French: dolor m, dolur, dulor, dulur
- Friulian: dolôr
- Ido: doloro
- Istriot: dulur
- Italian: dolore m
- Neapolitan: dolore
- Old Occitan: dolor m or f
- Old Galician-Portuguese: door f
- Galician: dor f
- Portuguese: dor f (see there for further descendants)
- Romanian: duroare, dolor
- Romansch: dolur, dalur, dolour, dulur
- Sardinian: dolore, dabori, daori, dulori
- Sicilian: duluri, ruluri, diluri
- Spanish: dolor m
- Venetian: dolor, dołor
References
- “dolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dolor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- time will assuage his grief: dies dolorem mitigabit
- to soothe grief: consolari dolorem alicuius
- to feel pain: dolore affici
- to be vexed about a thing: dolorem capere (percipere) ex aliqua re
- to feel acute pain: doloribus premi, angi, ardere, cruciari, distineri et divelli
- to cause a person pain: dolorem alicui facere, afferre, commovere
- to cause any one very acute pain: acerbum dolorem alicui inurere
- the pain is very severe: acer morsus doloris est (Tusc. 2. 22. 53)
- to find relief in tears: dolorem in lacrimas effundere
- to give way to grief: dolori indulgere
- grief has struck deep into his soul: dolor infixus animo haeret (Phil. 2. 26)
- to be wasted with grief; to die of grief: dolore confici, tabescere
- the pain grows less: dolores remittunt, relaxant
- to struggle against grief: dolori resistere
- to render insensible to pain: callum obducere dolori (Tusc. 2. 15. 36)
- I have become callous to all pain: animus meus ad dolorem obduruit (Fam. 2. 16. 1)
- to banish grief: dolorem abicere, deponere, depellere
- to free a person from his pain: dolorem alicui eripere (Att. 9. 6. 4)
- to my sorrow: cum magno meo dolore
- dolor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Meier-Brugger, Indo-European Linguistics