lamento
Spanish, noun
lamento is spelled L-A-M-E-N-T-O (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,704th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lamento is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “lament” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of lamentar. With an accent, lamentó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of lamentar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Lamentación”.
What does lamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelament
- 2
masculineplaint
- 3
masculinewail, wailing
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of lamentar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of lamentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lamentación. 2. Especie de barcarola de los gondoleros venecianos.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lamento
- lamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to lamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lamento in Spanish?
lamento appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).