threne
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θρῆνος (thrênos, “funeral lament”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θɹiːn/
Noun
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: A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music. — James Joyce, Ulysses
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI
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Translations
a dirge or lamentation
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