Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A funeral song; an elegy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A funeral song; an elegy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
funeral song ; anelegy .
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Examples
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"nenia", no kind of, no sort of, expressing a negative idea concerning the quality of a person or thing:
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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[Greek: hedoulosato]] [Footnote 91: This remark (as Cobet pointed out) is evidently a perversion of an old nursery jingle (nenia):
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Sekve: neniaj preparadoj, nenia prokrasto je la ekfotografado.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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functa piis cecinit nenia nostra modis. nunc, dolor atque cruces nec contrectabile fulmen,
The Graves of a Household Ausonius 1912
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Quid nunc, impure? numquid debetur tibi? quid illi molestu’s? quid illum morte territas? et ego te et ille mactamus infortunio. si tibi est machaera, at nobis veruinast domi: qua quidem te faciam, si tu me inritaveris, confossiorem soricina nenia. iam dudum hercle equidem sentio, suspicio 890 quae te sollicitet: eum esse cum illa muliere.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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