doloro-, dolor-, dolori- , dol- +

To the painful or aching parts.

1. A reference to showing sympathy to someone who is experiencing grief, loss, or pain; especially, over a death.
2. Characterized by showing or expressing sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief.

To express sympathy or sorrow: "He appreciated the woman who tried to condole him for the loss of his daughter."

1. An expression or declaration of sympathy with someone who has experienced pain, grief, or misfortune.
2. Etymology: from Late Latin condolere, "to suffer together" from com- "with" + <>dolere, "to grieve".

dole¹

1. Archaic, sorrow, grief, sadness, misery; dolor.
2. Etymology: via Old French dol, "mourning, grieving" from Vulgar Latin dolus which came from Latin dolere, "to grieve, to suffer pain".

dole²

1. A regular sum of money paid by the government to someone who is unemployed.
2. The charitable provision of clothes, money, or food to someone who is in need; such as, from an individual, or individuals, or an organized charity.
3. Primarily British, the distribution by the government of relief payments to the unemployed; welfare.
4. To give out sparingly or in small quantities: "Water and food was doled out to the survivors of the recent earthquake."
5. Etymology: dole is something given or dealt out and comes from Old English daelan and from a Germanic base dail-, which also is the basis for the English word deal.

By the 14th century, this developed into the more specific "portion (of money, clothing, food, etc.) handed out as a charitable donation to those in need".

The phrase on the dole, "receiving government benefits", was first recorded in the 1920's. In the 15th century, the verb dole, "to distribute" was in use, then the modern usage, to dole out, came into existence in the 18th century.

1. Filled with or evoking sadness.
2. Causing grief; such as, a doleful loss.
3. Sorrowful, mournful, melancholy: "At the funeral, the wife had a doleful look on her face."

1. With sadness; in a sorrowful manner: "His mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had failed his final exam in school."
2. Dismally, sadly, bringing feelings of sadness.

1. A verb form, to hurt, to ache: "My head hurts me."
2. In medicine, pain; one of the principal indications of inflammation; others include: rubor (redness), tumor (swelling), functio laesa (loss of function), and calor (heat).
3. Used in old medicine as one of five cardinal symptoms of inflammation.
4. A mental suffering or anguish.

A head ache.

A pain in the hip.

Spanish for Maria de los Dolores, Mary of the Sorrows.

Fleeting, false pains occurring a few days before the onset of labor during childbirth.

Causing pain or grief.

That which banishes or mitigates grief or sorrow.

1. A device for measuring sensitivity or degrees of pain, or pain intensity, utilizing a variety of stimuli; such as, thermal radiation and some standard responses by the conscious individual as an index of pain threshold.
2. An instrument usually employing infrared radiation, for measuring the stimulus magnitude required for inducing pain.