| 1 | Middle English | dolorous | — |
| 2 | Old French | dolerous | painful |
| 3 | Late Latin | dolorosus | painful; painful; sorrowful; painful; full of... |
| 4 | Latin | dolor | pain, ache, hurt; anguish, grief, sorrow;... |
| 5 | Latin | -or | used to form a third-declension masculine... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ōs | Creates masculine action nouns or result nouns... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōs | Creates masculine and feminine action nouns or... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -oss | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |