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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. · A composition of mournful character. · A classical poem written in elegiac meter
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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