elegia

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.ləˈʒi.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.leˈd͡ʒi.a/

From Latin elegīa, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεία (elegeía).

elegia f (plural elegies)

1. elegy

• elegíac

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

elegia

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative form of elegir
2. third-person singular imperfect indicative form of elegir

• “elegia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “elegia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “elegia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “elegia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Internationalism (see English elegy), ultimately from Latin elegīa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeleɡiɑ/, [ˈe̞le̞ˌɡiɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): e‧le‧gi‧a

elegia

1. elegy

From Latin elegīa, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεία (elegeía).

• IPA^(key): /e.leˈd͡ʒi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: e‧le‧gì‧a

elegia f (plural elegie)

1. elegy

• elegiaco

• Giaele

• elegēa, elegeia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεία (elegeía).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e.leˈɡiː.a/, [ɛɫ̪ɛˈɡiːä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.leˈd͡ʒi.a/, [eleˈd͡ʒiːä]

elegīa f (genitive elegīae); first declension

1. elegy

   Synonyms: elegī (plural only), elegīdārion (short elegy)

   • Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Remedia amoris, verse 379f. In: P. Ovidius Naso. Ex recognitone Rudolphi Merkelii. Tom. I. Amores. Epistuae. De medic. Fac. Ars. amat. Remedia amoris., Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1855/1862/1868, p. 240:

     Blanda pharetratos elegeia cantet Amores,
     Et levis arbitrio ludat amica suo.
     [Note: Other editions have Elegia, Elegeia, Elegeïa]

   • Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Remedia amoris, verse 379f. In: P. Ovidius Naso. Remedia amoris. Heilmittel gegen die Liebe. Lateinisch/Deutsch. Übersetzt und herausgegeben von Niklas Holzberg, 2011, p. 34:

     blanda pharetratos Elegia cantet Amores
     et levis arbitrio ludat amica suo.

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: elegia
• Italian: elegia
• Portuguese: elegia
• Spanish: elegía
  • → Tagalog: elehiya

• “elegia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elegia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “elegia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from Latin elegīa, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεία ᾠδή (elegeía ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”), from ἐλεγεία (elegeía), feminine of ἐλεγεῖος (elegeîos, “elegiac”), from ἔλεγος (élegos, “poem or song of lament”), perhaps from Phrygian.

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈlɛ.ɡja/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡja
• Syllabification: e‧le‧gia

elegia f

1. (poetry) elegy (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
2. (music) elegy (composition of mournful character)

• elegia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• elegia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin elegīa, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεία (elegeía).

elegia f (plural elegias)

1. elegy

• elegíaco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

elegia

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of eleger