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elegiacal

 [el-i-jahy-uhk, -ak, ih-lee-jee-ak]   Origin

el·e·gi·ac

   [el-i-jahy-uhk, -ak, ih-lee-jee-ak]
adjective Also, el·e·gi·a·cal.
1.
used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
2.
expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.
3.
Classical Prosody. noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot.
noun
4.
an elegiac or distich verse.
5.
a poem in such distichs or verses.

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Origin:
1575–85; (< Middle French ) < Latin elegīacus < Greek elegeiakós. See elegy, -ac

Related forms
el·e·gi·a·cal·ly, adverb
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elegiac
1580s, from L. elegiacus, from Gk. elegeiakos, from eleigeion (see elegy). Related: Elegiacally.
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