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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛləˈd͡ʒaɪək/, /ˌɛləˈd͡ʒaɪæk/
• 韻: -aɪək, -aɪæk

形容詞

elegiac (comparative more elegiac, superlative most elegiac)

1. Of or relating to an elegy.

   the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter

2. Expressing sorrow or mourning.
   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Third: To William Erskine, Esq.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, OCLC 270129616, stanza III, page 119:

     Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?

   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “First Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, OCLC 1000396166, page 36:

     And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,

派生語

名詞

elegiac (複数形 elegiacs)

1. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
   • 1748, John Upton, Critical Observations on Shakespeare‎^[1], 2nd ed. edition, page 385:

     His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs