лития

• IPA^(key):

лития́ • (litijá) f inan (genitive литии́, nominative plural литии́, genitive plural лити́й)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) lity, name for several prayers in Eastern Orthodoxy:
   1. a special prayer for the dead, performed during a funeral or during the commemoration of the deceased
   2. part of the nightly vigil, following the pleading of the litany
   3. a public prayer, performed at the time of a disaster or in memory of a disaster
   • 1880, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин , “Племяннушка”, in Господа Головлёвы, Санкт-Петербург: Отечественные записки; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The Golovlevs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986:

     — И кто бы, суда́рыня, поду́мал, что под сим скро́мным кресто́м, при бе́дной на́шей це́ркви, нашла́ себе́ успокое́ние богате́йшая не́когда поме́щица зде́шнего уе́зда! — сказа́л свяще́нник по оконча́нии литии́.

     — I kto by, sudárynja, podúmal, što pod sim skrómnym krestóm, pri bédnoj nášej cérkvi, našlá sebé uspokojénije bogatéjšaja nékogda poméščica zdéšnevo ujézda! — skazál svjaščénnik po okončánii litií.

     ‘And who would think, ma’am, that by the side of our poor church and beneath this humble cross there should have found repose she who was once the wealthiest landowner in the district!’ said the priest when the service was over.

2. (rare, poetic) a solemn prayer or song

• IPA^(key):

ли́тия • (lítija) m inan

1. genitive singular of ли́тий (lítij)