hélas
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French[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Old French elas, variant of a las, from a (“ah”) + las, from Latin lassus (“weary”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
hélas
- alas; exclamatory or declarative conjunction expressing affliction, regret, disappointment.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Tough Abbé Maury, when the obscure country Royalist grasps his hand with transport of thanks, answers, rolling his indomitable brazen head: "Hélas, Monsieur, all that I do here is as good as simply nothing."
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Dutch: helaas
Etymology 2[edit]
See héler.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /e.la/
Verb[edit]
hélas
- second-person singular past historic of héler
Noun[edit]
hélas m (plural hélas)
Further reading[edit]
- “hélas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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