lăcrima

• lăcrăma (popular)

From the older form lăcrăma, from Latin lacrimāre, present active infinitive of lacrimō. Most of the Romance cognates seem to have developed with the infix *-idiō, *-idiāre, as with conjugated forms of the Romanian: compare Aromanian lãcãrmedz, lãcãrmari, Italian lacrimare, dialectal variant lacrimeggiare, Catalan llagrimejar, Occitan lagremejar, Portuguese lacrimejar, Spanish lagrimar, lagrimear, French larmoyer.

a lăcrima (third-person singular present lăcrimează, past participle lăcrimat) 1st conj.

1. to shed tears, weep

• plânge (ușor)

• lacrimă
• lăcrimos