Word Origin Summary

Lacrima is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *dáḱru-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• lacus lacrimalis

  Translingual · derived from

• larmo

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• lacrymogène

  French · derived from

• lacrima

  Italian · inherited from

• lacrimogenous

  English · derived from

• lagrema

  Old Spanish · inherited from

• larme

  French · inherited from

• llárima

  Asturian · inherited from

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