θρηνῳδία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From θρηνῴδης (thrēnṓidēs, “like or fit for a dirge”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā), from θρῆνος (thrênos, “lamenting”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song, ode”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰrɛː.nɔːi̯.dí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰre̝.noˈdi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θri.noˈði.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θri.noˈði.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θri.noˈði.a/

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Noun

θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ • (thrēnōidĭ́ā) f (genitive θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension

lamentation, mourning
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 604d:
  τάχιστα γίγνεσθαι πρὸς τὸ ἰᾶσθαί τε καὶ ἐπανορθοῦν τὸ πεσόν τε καὶ νοσῆσαν, ἰατρικῇ θρηνῳδίαν ἀφανίζοντα.
  tákhista gígnesthai pròs tò iâsthaí te kaì epanorthoûn tò pesón te kaì nosêsan, iatrikêi thrēnōidían aphanízonta.
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.657a

Declension

First declension of ἡ θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ hē thrēnōidĭ́ā	τὼ θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ thrēnōidĭ́ā	αἱ θρηνῳδῐ́αι hai thrēnōidĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱς tês thrēnōidĭ́ās	τοῖν θρηνῳδῐ́αιν toîn thrēnōidĭ́ain	τῶν θρηνῳδῐῶν tôn thrēnōidĭôn
Dative	τῇ θρηνῳδῐ́ᾳ têi thrēnōidĭ́āi	τοῖν θρηνῳδῐ́αιν toîn thrēnōidĭ́ain	ταῖς θρηνῳδῐ́αις taîs thrēnōidĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱν tḕn thrēnōidĭ́ān	τὼ θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ thrēnōidĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱς tā̀s thrēnōidĭ́ās
Vocative	θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ thrēnōidĭ́ā	θρηνῳδῐ́ᾱ thrēnōidĭ́ā	θρηνῳδῐ́αι thrēnōidĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ English: threnody
→ Latin: thrēnōdia

“θρηνῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θρηνῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θρηνῳδία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dirge idem, page 226.
- elegy idem, page 265.
- lamentation idem, page 474.
- threnody idem, page 870.
- wail idem, page 959.