- plaintive
[plaintive 词源字典]
- plaintive: see plague
[plaintive etymology, plaintive origin, 英语词源] - plaintive (adj.)
- late 14c., "lamenting," from Old French plaintif "complaining; wretched, miserable," from plainte (see plaint). Sense of "mournful, sad" first recorded 1570s. Related: Plaintively; plaintiveness.