Tom wrote an elegiac couplet in Latin about Mary.
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Elegiac
//ˌɛləˈd͡ʒaɪək//
Synonyms for "elegiac" (150 found)
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16 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- елегичен adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Catalan
1 entries- elegíac adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Finnish
1 entries- eleginen adj (of or relating to an elegy)
French
1 entries- élégiaque adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Galician
1 entries- elexíaco adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Georgian
1 entries- ელეგიური adj (of or relating to an elegy)
German
1 entries- elegisch adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Italian
1 entries- elegiaco adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Macedonian
1 entries- елегиски adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- elegisk adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Polish
2 entries- elegiacki adj (of or relating to an elegy)
- elegijny adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Portuguese
1 entries- elegíaco adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Romanian
1 entries- elegiac adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Spanish
2 entries- elegiaco adj (of or relating to an elegy)
- elegíaco adj (of or relating to an elegy)
Sample sentences
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the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
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Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?
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And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,
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