elegy

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɛlɪd͡ʒi/    美 /ˈɛlɪd͡ʒi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
    — funeral elegy
  2. A composition of mournful character.
  3. A classical poem written in elegiac meter

词形变化

elegies plural

词汇关系

近义词
monody. See dirge
衍生词
elegiac elegiast elegiographer elegist elegize
并列词
jeremiad poem but with more emphasis on bitterness and impending doom requiem

词源

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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