lacrimae rerum

Alternative forms

 * lacrimae rerum, lacrimæ rerum
 * lachrymae rerum, lachrymæ rerum

Etymology
An allusion to Virgil’s Aeneid (29–19 BC), book I, line 462; : (“tears”, the nominative plural form of, “tear”) +  (“of things”, the genitive plural form of , “thing”) = “tears of things”.

Noun

 * 1)  The “tears of things”; the inherent tragedy of existence.