MOURNING Copy link • MOURNINGSorrow, grief, luctus; maestitia maeror. A house of mourning, domus lugubris (general term); domus funesta (in which a corpse lies). The outward signs, garb, etc., of sorrow, vestis or cultus lugubris; squalor; sordes. To be in mourning, pullatum or sotdidatum esse squalere: many noble families were in mourning, multae et clarae lugubres erant domus: in mourning, sordidatus; pullatus; atratus; veste lugubri vestitus: to put on mourning, vestem mutare; vestem lugubrem sumere or induere: to leave off mourning, ad vestitum (suum) redire (opposed to vestem mutare); luctum deponere or finire; vestem lugubrem deponere or exuere.