elegy

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Etymology

1514, from Middle French elegie, from Latin elegīa, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεία ᾠδή ‎(elegeía ōidḗ, “an elegaic song”), from ἐλεγεία ‎(elegeía), feminine of ἐλεγεῖος ‎(elegeîos, “elegaic”), from ἔλεγος ‎(élegos, “poem or song of lament”), perhaps from Phrygian.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɛlɪdʒi/
• Hyphenation: el‧e‧gy

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Noun

elegy ‎(plural elegies)

1. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

Synonyms

• dirge, threnody

Coordinate terms

• requiem – a piece of music played at a mass for the dead

Derived terms

• elegiac

Translations

mournful or plaintive poem or song

• Arabic: رِثَاء m ‎(riṯāʾ)
• Bulgarian: елегия (bg) f ‎(elegija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 挽歌 (zh) ‎(wǎngē) (trad. variant: 輓歌 (zh)), 哀歌 (zh) ‎(āigē)

• Czech: žalozpěv m, elegie f
• Danish: elegi c, klagesang c, sørgedigt n
• Dutch: klaaglied (nl) n
• Esperanto: elegio
• Finnish: suruvirsi, valitusvirsi (fi), elegia
• French: élégie (fr) f
• German: Elegie (de) f
• Greek: ελεγεία (el) ‎(elegeía)
• Hebrew: קִנָּה (he) ‎(kiná)
• Irish: marbhna m
• Japanese: 哀歌 ‎(あいか, aika)

• Korean: 만가 (ko) ‎(man-ga)
• Ladino: endecha
• Latin: elegīa f, elegī m pl
• Old Irish: marbnad f
• Polish: elegia (pl) f
• Portuguese: elegia (pt) f
• Russian: эле́гия (ru) f ‎(elégija)
• Scottish Gaelic: cumha m, tuireadh m, marbhnach m, marbhrann m
• Serbo-Croatian: narikača (sh) f, žalopojka (sh) f, tužbalica (sh) f, elegija (sh) f
• Spanish: elegía (es) f,
• Swedish: elegi (sv) c
• Turkish: ağıt (tr), sagu (tr), mersiye (tr)
• Welsh: marwnad f
• Yiddish: עלעגיע f ‎(elegye)
• Zazaki: hewal

See also

• eulogy – similar sounding funeral word

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