elegia

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ləˈʒi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.leˈd͡ʒi.a]

Borrowed 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/third-person singular imperfect indicative of elegir

• “elegia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “elegia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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/, [ˈe̞le̞ˌɡiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): e‧le‧gi‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): ele‧gia

elegia

1. elegy

• “elegia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

elegia f (plural elegias, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of elexía

• “elegia” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛ.ɫɛˈɡiː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.leˈd͡ʒiː.a]

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
• → Translingual: Elegia

• “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

Learned borrowing 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

• Hyphenation: e‧le‧gi‧a

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