lamento
Portuguese, noun/laˈmẽ.tu/
lamento is spelled L-A-M-E-N-T-O (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,752nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “wailing, moaning, weeping” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of lamentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lamentação”.
What does lamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewailing, moaning, weeping
- 2
masculinelamentation, lament
- 3
masculinecomplaint
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of lamentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. lamentação 2. pranto, choro
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lamento
- lamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lamento?
- Brazil /laˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /lɐˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /lɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lamento in Portuguese?
lamento appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).