noun, feminine/laʁm/plural: larmes
tear; teardrop; drop (small amount of a beverage)
“Quand les souvenirs s'en mêlent, les larmes me viennent, et le chant des sirènes me replonge en hiver” — When memories come into it, tears come to my eyes, and the sirens' song plunges me back into winter
Synonyms: goutte
Inherited from Old French larme, lerme, from Latin lacrima, from Old Latin lacruma, dacrima, dacruma, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru-.