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elegia

elegia · f

An elegy

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Where it lives

Parentalia 2 · 7.7/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ĕlĕgīa — Lewis & Short

ĕlĕgīa (ĕlĕgēa, in Ov. ĕlĕgēĭă), ae, f., = e)legei/a.

I An elegy: form elegia, Quint. 10, 1, 58; 93; Stat. S. 1, 2, 7; Mart. 5, 30, 4; Aus. Parent. 7, 1; form elegea, Quint. 1, 8, 6; form elegeia, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 7; 3, 9, 3; id. R. Am. 379.—

II A kind of reed: est et obliqua harundo, non in excelsitatem nascens, sed juxta terram fruticis modo se spargens, suavissima in teneritate animalibus: vocatur a quibusdam elegia, Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 167.

In the wild

elegia Martial, Epigrammata 5.30.4
elegiae Ovid, Epistulae 15.7
Elegia Ovid, Amores 3.1.7
elegiam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.58
Elegia Ovid, Remedia Amoris 379
Elegeam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.24.p1

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. elegia (scan p. 429; entry #1003).

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