threne

English

Etymology

From Latin threnus, from Ancient Greek θρῆνος (thrênos, “funeral lament”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɹiːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

threne (plural threnes)

1. a dirge or lamentation
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI

     That City's sombre Patroness and Queen,

     In bronze sublimity she gazes forth

     Over her Capital of teen and threne

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music.

Related terms

• threnody

Translations

a dirge or lamentation

• Catalan: tren (ca) m
• French: thrène (fr) m
• German: Threnos
• Italian: treno (it) m
• Malayalam: ത്രെനോഡി (trenōḍi)
• Norwegian: trenos
• Polish: tren (pl)
• Russian: погребальная песнь f (pogrebalʹnaja pesnʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: тужбалица
• Spanish: treno (es) m

See also

• coronach
• lament
• elegy
• dirge

Anagrams

• ethren, nether, nether-