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nenia

nenia noun: a funeral song; an elegy.

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
    • The corpse of L’Escuyer, stretched on a bier, the ghastly head girt with laurel, is borne through the streets; with many-voiced unmelodious Nenia; funeral-wail still deeper than it is loud!1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Avignon”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First)

Forms of nenia

pluralnenias

Origin of nenia

Borrowed from Latin nēnia.

Questions about nenia

What does nenia mean?
Nenia means a funeral song; an elegy.
What part of speech is nenia?
Nenia is a noun.
What is the plural of nenia?
The plural of nenia is nenias.

Words near nenia in the dictionary

  1. Nenets Herding Laika
  2. Nenets Herding Laikas
  3. Nenetsia
  4. NEngE
  5. Nengone
  6. nenia
  7. nenias
  8. nenikekamen
  9. nenikikamen
  10. Nenninger
  11. Nenningers

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