Ancient Greek

Noun

θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ • ‎(thrēnōidíā) f ‎(genitive θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. lamentation, mourning
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 604.d

     τάχιστα γίγνεσθαι πρὸς τὸ ἰᾶσθαί τε καὶ ἐπανορθοῦν τὸ πεσόν τε καὶ νοσῆσαν, ἰατρικῇ θρηνῳδίαν ἀφανίζοντα.

   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.657.a

Declension

Descendants

• English: threnody
• Latin: thrēnōdia

References

• θρηνῳδία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θρηνῳδία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «θρηνῳδία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dirge idem, page 226.
  • elegy idem, page 265.
  • lamentation idem, page 474.
  • threnody idem, page 870.
  • wail idem, page 959.