[ˈɛlədʒi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (in modern literature) a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
(e.g: he wrote elegies for friends who died during the war)

- (in Greek and Latin verse) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius
(e.g: the poem might be a translation from an ancient Greek elegy)


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Origin:
early 16th century: from French élégie, or via Latin, from Greek elegeia, from elegos ‘mournful poem’