threnody

• n. 挽歌；葬歌；悼词

来自希腊语 threnos,悲歌，挽歌，可能来自拟声词根 PIE*thren,嗡嗡声，词源同 drone.-ody, 歌，诗，词源同 ode,comedy.

threnody (n.)

"song of lamentation," 1630s, from Greek threnodia "lamentation," from threnos "dirge, lament" + oide "ode" (see ode). Greek threnos probably is from PIE imitative root *dher- (3) "to drone, murmur, hum;" cognates: Old English dran "drone," Gothic drunjus "sound," Greek tenthrene "a kind of wasp."

1. They sang a threnody for the dead person.

他们为那个死去的人唱了哀歌.

来自《简明英汉词典》