elegy

§English

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§Etymology

1514, from Middle French elegie, from Latin elegia, 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) 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: رثاء m (rithaa')
• 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 (kiná)

• Irish: marbhna m
• Japanese: 哀歌 (あいか, aika)
• Korean: 만가 (ko) (man-ga)
• Ladino: endecha
• 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 f, žalopojka f, tužbalica f, elegija f
• Spanish: elegía (es) f,
• Swedish: elegi (sv) c
• Turkish: ağıt (tr), sagu (tr), mersiye (tr)
• Welsh: marwnad f

§See also

• eulogy – similar sounding funeral word

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