Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A funeral song; an elegy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A funeral song; an elegy.
Examples
“nenia", no kind of, no sort of, expressing a negative idea concerning the quality of a person or thing:”
“[Greek: hedoulosato]] [Footnote 91: This remark (as Cobet pointed out) is evidently a perversion of an old nursery jingle (nenia):”
“Sekve: neniaj preparadoj, nenia prokrasto je la ekfotografado.”
“functa piis cecinit nenia nostra modis. nunc, dolor atque cruces nec contrectabile fulmen,”
“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.”
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