Plaint (noun)
playnt
a lament; lamentation
First recorded between 1175–1225. From the Old French pleinte, meaning “lamentation” and ultimately from the Latin plangere, “to strike one’s head or breast as a sign of grief.”
Example sentences
“The poem was a mournful plaint of loss.
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