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elegiac

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

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elegist

English

Etymology

elegy +? -ist

Noun

elegist (plural elegists)

  1. A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse

Translations

  • Italian: elegista

Anagrams

  • elegits

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