el|e|gy

el|e|gy «EHL uhee», noun, plural -gies.

1. a mournful or melancholy poem, usually a lament for the dead. Milton's Lycidas and Shelley's Adonais are elegies.

2. a poem written in elegiac verses.

3. Music. a mournful piece to be played or sung.

╂[< Middle French élégie, learned borrowing from Latin elegīa < Greek elegeíā, ultimately < élegos mournful poem, lament]