- elegiac
- el|e|gi|ac [ ,elə`dʒaıək ] adjective FORMALexpressing sadness, especially because someone has died or something no longer exists
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Elegiac — refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic… … Wikipedia
elegiac — ELEGIÁC, Ă, elegiaci, ce, adj. Care are caracterele elegiei; p. ext. melancolic, nostalgic, trist, jalnic. ♦ (Despre poeţi) Care scrie elegii sau lucrări cu caracter de elegie. [pr.: gi ac] – Din fr. élégiaque, lat. elegiacus. Trimis de… … Dicționar Român
Elegiac — E*le gi*ac (?; 277), a. [L. elegiacus, Gr. ?: cf. F. [ e]l[ e]giaque. See {Elegy}.] 1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. [1913 Webster] Elegiac griefs,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Elegiac — E*le gi*ac, n. Elegiac verse. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
elegiac — [el΄ə jī′ə kəlel ē′jē ak΄, i lē′jē ak΄; el΄ə jī′ak΄, el΄ə jī′ək] adj. [LL elegiacus < Gr elegeiakos < elegeia: see ELEGY] 1. Gr. & Latin Prosody of or composed in dactylic hexameter couplets, the second line (sometimes called a pentameter)… … English World dictionary
elegiac — index disconsolate, lugubrious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
elegiac — англ. [илиджа/йэк] elegiaco ит. [эледжи/ако] élégiaque фр. [элежиа/к] elegisch нем. [эле/гиш] элегический, печальный … Словарь иностранных музыкальных терминов
elegiac — 1580s, from M.Fr. élégiaque, from L. elegiacus, from Gk. elegeiakos, from eleigeia (see ELEGY (Cf. elegy)). Related: Elegiacally … Etymology dictionary
elegiac — [adj] lamenting doleful, funereal, melancholy, mournful, sad, sorrowful, threnodial; concept 403 … New thesaurus
elegiac — ► ADJECTIVE 1) relating to or characteristic of an elegy. 2) wistfully mournful. DERIVATIVES elegiacally adverb … English terms dictionary
elegiac — also elegiacal adjective Etymology: Late Latin elegiacus, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeion Date: 1542 1. a. of, relating to, or consisting of two dactylic hexameter lines the second of which lacks the arsis in the third and sixth feet b. (1)… … New Collegiate Dictionary
