English
deplore
Deplore may come from Middle French déplorer.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600déploreruncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1605deplore
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600déploreruncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1605deplore
Earliest quotation: 1605, Francis Bacon: “The physicians do make a kind of scruple and…”
Linked words
through Latin plorō ‘to wail, weep aloud’
Today it means
verb To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French déplorer / deplore