nenia

See also: nénia, nênia, and neniä

English

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#NENIACategory:English terms derived from Latin#NENIA nēnia.

Noun

nenia (plural nenias)Category:English lemmas#NENIACategory:English nouns#NENIACategory:English countable nouns#NENIACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NENIACategory:Pages with entries#NENIACategory:Pages with 4 entries#NENIA

  1. (Ancient RomeCategory:en:Ancient Rome#NENIA) A funeral song; an elegy.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Honest Objects of Love”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      Nam vinci in amore turpissimum putant, not only living, but when their friends are dead, with tombs and monuments, nenias, epitaphs elegies, inscriptions, pyramids, obelisks, statues, images, pictures, histories, poems, annals, feasts, anniversaries, many ages after (as Plato's scholars did) they will parentare still, omit no good office that may tend to the preservation of their names, honours, and eternal memory.
      Category:English terms with quotations#NENIA
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Avignon”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First):
      The corpse of L’Escuyer, stretched on a bier, the ghastly head girt with laurel, is borne through the streets; with many-voiced unmelodious Nenia; funeral-wail still deeper than it is loud!
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    • 1901, M. P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud‎:
      And as I nodded, with forehead propped on my left hand, and the packet of pemmican cakes in my right, there was in my head, somehow, an old street-song of my childhood: and I groaned it sleepily, like coronachs and drear funereal nenias, dirging; and the packet beat time in my right hand, falling and raising, falling heavily and rising, in time.
      Category:English terms with quotations#NENIA

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Esperanto

Etymology

From neni- (negative correlative prefix) +‎ -a (correlative suffix of kind).

Pronunciation

Determiner

nenia (accusative singular nenian, plural neniaj, accusative plural neniajn)Category:Esperanto lemmas#NENIACategory:Esperanto determiners#NENIACategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#NENIACategory:Pages with entries#NENIACategory:Pages with 4 entries#NENIA

  1. no kind of

See also

Esperanto correlatives
interrogative demonstrative indefinite universal negative
ki- ti- i- ĉi- neni-
kind of, sort of -a kia tia ia ĉia nenia
reason -al kial tial ial ĉial nenial
time -am kiam tiam iam ĉiam neniam
place -e kie tie ie ĉie nenie
motion -en kien tien ien ĉien nenien
manner -el kiel tiel iel ĉiel neniel
possessive -es kies ties ies ĉies nenies
demonstrative pronoun -o kio tio io ĉio nenio
amount -om kiom tiom iom ĉiom neniom
demonstrative determiner -u kiu tiu iu ĉiu neniu

Further reading

Category:Esperanto BRO1 Category:Esperanto correlatives#NENIA

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Italian terms borrowed from Latin#NENIACategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#NENIA nēnia.

Pronunciation

Noun

nenia f (plural nenie)Category:Italian lemmas#NENIACategory:Italian nouns#NENIACategory:Italian countable nouns#NENIACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#NENIACategory:Italian feminine nouns#NENIACategory:Pages with entries#NENIACategory:Pages with 4 entries#NENIA

  1. dirge
  2. wail

Further reading

  • nenia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from Ancient GreekCategory:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#NENIA νηνία (nēnía).

Pronunciation

Noun

nēnia f (genitive nēniae)Category:Latin lemmas#NENIACategory:Latin nouns#NENIACategory:Latin first declension nouns#NENIACategory:Latin feminine nouns in the first declension#NENIACategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#NENIACategory:Latin feminine nouns#NENIACategory:Pages with entries#NENIACategory:Pages with 4 entries#NENIA; first declension

  1. a funeral song, dirge
  2. a spell, incantation, enchantment
    Synonyms: carmen, cantiō, cantus, incantāmentum
  3. a song of little consequence, ditty, tune, lullaby
    Synonyms: lallus, lallum
  4. (in the plural) talk of little consequence, trifles, nonsense
    Synonyms: nūgae, nihil
    • 1st c. AD, Phaedrus, Poeta:
      POĒTA / Ioculāre tibi vidētur et sānē levī, / Dum nihil habēmus maius, calamō lūdimus, / Sed dīligenter intuēre hās nēniās / Quantam sub titulīs ūtilitātem reperiēs!
      Poet. / It may seem to you that it's just jests and trifles when I don't have anything better to do and play with the pen: but look at these trifles diligently; you will find so much usefulness under this pretext!
      Category:Latin terms with quotations#NENIA
  5. (Late LatinCategory:Late Latin#NENIA, Medieval LatinCategory:Medieval Latin#NENIA) a complaint, criticism
    Synonyms: querēla, cēnsūra

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “nenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “nenia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “nenia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “nenia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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