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noun, feminine

larme

/laʁm/

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 hiverWhen 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-.