nenia

See also: nénia, nênia, and neniä

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

nenia (plural nenias)

  1. A funeral song; an elegy.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for nenia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Determiner

nenia (accusative singular nenian, plural neniaj, accusative plural neniajn)

  1. no kind of

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nenia.

Noun

nenia f (plural nenie)

  1. dirge
  2. wail

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Latin

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Pronunciation

Noun

nēnia f (genitive nēniae); first declension

  1. A funereal song; a dirge
  2. A song of little consequence; a ditty; a tune

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative nēnia nēniae
genitive nēniae nēniārum
dative nēniae nēniīs
accusative nēniam nēniās
ablative nēniā nēniīs
vocative nēnia nēniae

Descendants

References

  • nenia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nenia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • nenia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nenia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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