köken: Borrowed from Middle French elegie, from Latin elegīa, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγείᾱ (elegeíā), ellipsis of ἐλεγείᾱ ᾠδή (elegeíā ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”).
köken: Borrowed from Latin elegīa, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεία (ᾠδή) (elegeía (ōidḗ), literally “elegiac song”), from the feminine form of ἐλεγείος (elegeíos), from ἔλεγος (élegos, “mournful poem”).
köken: From klagen (“to mourn”) + lied (“song”), calque of German Klagelied. Originally only used as the title of Lamentations or a chapter thereof, introduced due to influence from Luther's Bible translation.
elegy (mournful or plaintive poem or song) · elegy (composition of mournful character)
çekim: çoğul elegie · tamlayan elegii
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin elegīa, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεία ᾠδή (elegeía ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”), from ἐλεγεία (elegeía), feminine of ἐλεγεῖος (elegeîos, “elegiac”), from ἔλεγος (élegos, “poem or song of lament”), perhaps from Phrygian.