Where does “lacrime” come from?
lacrime (Italian) comes from Italian lacrima, from Latin lācrima, from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Italic *d(r)(k)akrunā, from Proto-Indo-European dáḱru-, from Proto-Indo-European dr̥ḱ-h₂eḱru- — eye bitter.
lacrime (Italian): plural of lacrima
Ancestry of “lacrime”, step by step