different between elegiac vs dirge

English

Etymology

From Middle French élégiaque, from Latin eleg?acus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (elegeiakós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??d?a??k/, /??l??d?a?æk/
• Rhymes: -a??k, -a?æk

Adjective

elegiac (comparative more elegiac, superlative most elegiac)

1. Of or relating to an elegy.

2. Expressing sorrow or mourning.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

elegiac (plural elegiacs)

1. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.

Romanian

Etymology

From French élégiaque.

Adjective

elegiac m or n (feminine singular elegiac?, masculine plural elegiaci, feminine and neuter plural elegiace)

1. elegiac

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: dûj, IPA^(key): /d??d?/
• (US) enPR: dûrj, IPA^(key): /d?d?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d?

Noun

dirge (plural dirges)

1. A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
2. (informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.

Synonyms

• lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy

Related terms

• dirgeful

Translations

Verb

dirge (third-person singular simple present dirges, present participle dirging, simple past and past participle dirged)

1. To sing dirges

Anagrams

• Ridge, derig, gride, redig, ridge

Middle English

Noun

dirge

1. Alternative form of dirige