Meaning

1 senses
  1. A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.

    Threnodie

    эле́гияelégija, погреба́льная пе́сньpogrebálʹnaja pésnʹ

    a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a song or poem of lamentation:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a song or poem of lamentation:

Origin

From Ancient Greek θρηνῳδία (thrēnōidía, “lamentation”). Compare the New Latin thrēnōdia.

From Ancient Greek θρηνῳδία (thrēnōidía, “lamentation”). Compare the New Latin thrēnōdia.

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Forms

plural: threnodies

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

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