Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - lament

n. & v. --n. 1 a passionate expression of grief. 2 a song or poem of mourning or sorrow. --v.tr. (also absol.) 1 express or feel grief for or about; regret (lamented the loss of his ticket). 2 (as lamented adj.) a conventional expression referring to a recently dead person (your late lamented father). Phrases and idioms lament for (or over) mourn or regret. Derivatives lamenter n. lamentingly adv. Etymology: L lamentum