threne
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Etymology edit
From Latin threnus, from Ancient Greek θρῆνος (thrênos, “funeral lament”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
threne (plural threnes)
- a dirge or lamentation
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI
- That City's sombre Patroness and Queen,
- In bronze sublimity she gazes forth
- Over her Capital of teen and threne
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI
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Translations edit
a dirge or lamentation