Where does “plaint” come from?

plaint (Old French) comes from Latin planctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

plaint (Old French): lament

Definitions

  1. lament

Ancestry of “plaint”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinplanctusstruck, beaten; bewailed, lamented, mourned;...
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “plaint”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin planctus →