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naenia

naenia is the alternative form of nenia.

Meaning of nenia

Noun

nenia (plural nenias)

  1. (Ancient-Rome) A funeral song; an elegy.
    • Nam vinci in amore turpissimum putant, not only living, but when their friends are dead, with tombs and monuments, nenias, epitaphs elegies, inscriptions, pyramids, obelisks, statues, images, pictures, histories, poems, annals, feasts, anniversaries, many ages after (as Plato's scholars did) they...1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Honest Objects of Love”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

Forms of naenia

pluralnaenias

Questions about naenia

What is naenia the alternative form of?
Naenia is the alternative form of nenia.

Words near naenia in the dictionary

  1. Naeglers
  2. Naegles
  3. NAEI
  4. Naenae
  5. naengmyeon
  6. naenia
  7. naenias
  8. Naeoky
  9. NAEPP
  10. Naeri
  11. NAEs

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