elegy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   Funeral elegy.

From Middle French elegie, from Latin elegīa, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐλεγείᾱ (elegeíā), ellipsis of ἐλεγείᾱ ᾠδή (elegeíā ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”).

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