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epicedia

epicedia is the plural of epicede.

epicedia is the plural of epicedium.

Meaning of epicede

Noun

epicede (plural epicedes or epicedia)

  1. An elegy; an ode to someone deceased.
    • "This epicede, longer and more ornate than that issued two years before on Prince Henry, is neither much worse nor much better in substance and in style."1875, Algernon Charles Swinburne, 'George Chapman: A Critical Essay, page 139
    Synonyms:
    elegy, epicedium

Meaning of epicedium

Noun

epicedium (plural epicedia)

  1. An epicede: a dirge, lament, elegy.

Questions about epicedia

What is epicedia the plural of?
Epicedia is the plural of epicede.

Words near epicedia in the dictionary

  1. epicatechin
  2. epicatechins
  3. epicatequine
  4. epicede
  5. epicedes
  6. epicedia
  7. epicedial
  8. epicedian
  9. epicedians
  10. epicedium
  11. epicedrol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epicedia (page history and authors); epicede (page history and authors); epicedium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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