Lachrymated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Having produced tears, as when the eyes have been irritated or overcome by strong emotion
2. Describing eyes that have streamed with tears from irritation, grief or an onion's fumes
3. Caused to weep or water, typically by a sharp stimulus or a powerful feeling

Etymology: "Lachrymated" is the past tense and past participle of "lachrymate," meaning to shed tears. Its root is Latin "lacrima" (or the variant "lachryma"), "tear," which gives English a family of words for weeping, including "lacrimal" and "lachrymose." The source of the verb is the Latin participle "lacrimatus," formed from the verb "lacrimare," "to weep," and English took the verb-forming suffix "-ate" with it. Medieval Latin "lachryma" carried the spelling with the "h" that English later kept in this verb, while the "lacrimate" spelling reflects the classical form.

Synonyms: weep, cry