condolence: [17] Condolence and sympathy are parallel formations: both go back to classical originals (late Latin condolēre and Greek sumpátheia respectively) which meant literally ‘together-suffering’. Latin condolēre was a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and dolēre ‘suffer pain’ (source of English dolour and doleful). This entered English in the 16th century as the now seldom encountered verb condole, but the comparative frequency of the noun condolence is probably due to the early 17th-century adoption of French condoléance (the spelling condoleance was common in English in the 17th and 18th centuries). => doleful, dolour
condolence (n.)
c. 1600, from Late Latin condolere "to suffer together" (see condole) + -ence. Often in form condoleance 1600-1800.
实用例句
1. Neil sent him a letter of condolence.
尼尔给他发了一封唁函。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Please accept my condolence on your mother's death.
请接受我对令堂故去的吊慰.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. You should, however , send a letter of condolence to your father - in - law . "
但汝 岳父 处应去一信唁之. ”
来自汉英文学 - 围城
4. I was touched, I said something in condolence with him.
