lūgū̆bris (lūgūbris, Lucr. 4, 547), e, adj. [lugeo and fero], of or belonging to mourning, mourning-.
I Lit.: lamentatio, over the dead , Cic. Tusc. 1, 13, 30: vestis, mourning apparel , Ter. Heaut. 286; cf. cultus, Tac. A. 13, 32: cantus, a dirge , Hor. C. 1, 24, 2: domus, a house of mourning , Liv. 3, 32: genitor, mourning, sorrowing , Ov. M. 4, 690; so, pectora, id. H. 10, 145.— Subst.: lūgū̆brĭa , ĭum, n., mourning garments, sable weeds : lugubria indue, Ov. M. 11, 669; illa dies veniet, mea qua lugubria ponam. id. Tr. 4, 2, 73: imposita lugubria numquam exuerunt, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 16, 2: lugubria sumpsi, Prop. 4 (5), 12, 97.—
II Transf.
A That causes mourning, disastrous : bellum, Hor. C. 2, 1, 33: Trojae renascens alite lugubri, id. ib. 3, 3, 61.—
B Mournful, doleful, plaintive : vox, Lucr. 4, 546: vagitus, id. 5, 226: verba, Ov. Ib. 99.—
C Mean, pitiable : sagum, Hor. Epod. 9, 28.—Hence, adv., in two forms: lūgū̆bre and lūgū̆brĭter , mournfully, dolefully, portentously, plaintively : cometae Sanguinei lugubre rubent, Verg. A. 10, 273: sonitu lugubre minaci Mulciber immugit, Sil. 12, 140: lugubriter eiulantes, Ap. Met. 3, 8, 7.