elegy

Etymology
From, from , itself a borrowing from , ellipsis of.

Noun

 * 1) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
 * 2)  A composition of mournful character.
 * 3) A classical poem written in elegiac meter

Usage notes
Because the words elegy and sound and look similar and both concern speeches or poems associated with someone's death and funeral, they are easily confused. A simple key to remembering the difference is that an elegy is chiefly about lamenting whereas a eulogy is chiefly about praising (and = "good").

Synonyms

 * See

Coordinate terms

 * – a piece of music played at a mass for the dead

Translations

 * Arabic: رِثَاء, مَرْثِيَة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 哀歌
 * Mandarin: (trad. variant: ),
 * Czech: žalozpěv,
 * Danish: elegi, klagesang, sørgedigt
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: elegio
 * Finnish: suruvirsi, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐλεγεία
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: marbhna
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Ladino: endecha
 * Latin: elegīa, elegī
 * Macedonian: еле́гија
 * Old English: līclēoþ
 * Old Irish: marbnad
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cumha, tuireadh, marbhnach, marbhrann
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: elehiya
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Welsh: marwnad
 * Yiddish: עלעגיע
 * Zazaki: hewal