nenia

See also: nénia, nênia, and neniä

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Noun

nenia (plural nenias)

1. A funeral song; an elegy.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nenia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• -anine, Annie, inane

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Esperanto

Etymology

From neni- (negative correlative prefix) +‎ -a (correlative suffix of kind).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [neˈnia]

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: ne‧ni‧a

Determiner

nenia (accusative singular nenian, plural neniaj, accusative plural neniajn)

1. no kind of

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nenia.

Noun

nenia f (plural nenie)

1. dirge
2. wail

Anagrams

• inane

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Latin

Alternative forms

• naenia

Etymology

Thought to be derived from Ancient Greek νηνία (nēnía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈneː.ni.a/, [ˈneːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈne.ni.a/, [ˈnɛːniä]

Noun

nēnia f (genitive nēniae); first declension

1. A funereal song; a dirge
2. A song of little consequence; a ditty; a tune

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nēnia	nēniae
Genitive	nēniae	nēniārum
Dative	nēniae	nēniīs
Accusative	nēniam	nēniās
Ablative	nēniā	nēniīs
Vocative	nēnia	nēniae

Descendants

• Italian: nenia
• Portuguese: nênia

References

• “nenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nenia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nenia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin