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nenias

nenias is the plural 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

Questions about nenias

What is nenias the plural of?
Nenias is the plural of nenia.

Words near nenias in the dictionary

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

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