1. νηνία · nēnia — Beekes
The corpus record
νηνία
nenia
[f-] public eulogy, sometimes accompanied by the flute (Cic
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What it meant
2. νηνία · nēnia — Chantraine
3. νηνία · nēnia — LSJ
public eulogy on great men, sometimes accompanied by the flute: hence, lament, dirge, only in Lat. nenia, a Gr. word acc. to Cic. Legg. 2.24.62; cf. sq. [νηνίατον]
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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