different between elegy vs coronach

English

Etymology

From Middle French elegie, from Latin eleg?a, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ??????? (elegeí?), ellipsis of ??????? ??? (elegeí? ?id?, “an elegiac song”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation, Canada) IPA^(key): /??l?d?i/
• Hyphenation: el?e?gy

Noun

elegy (plural elegies)

1. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]
2. (music) A composition of mournful character.
3. a classical poem written in elegiac meter

Synonyms

• dirge, threnody

Coordinate terms

• requiem – a piece of music played at a mass for the dead

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• eulogy – similar sounding funeral word

Anagrams

• lyege

English

Alternative forms

• coranach
• coranich
• corrinoch
• corronach
• cronach

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic corranach and Irish cor?nach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???n?k/, /k???n?x/

Noun

coronach (plural coronachs)

1. (historical, Scotland, Ireland) dirge, lamentation

Synonyms

• ullaloo

Usage notes

• Used for funeral songs in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland.

Translations

Anagrams

• coanchor