nenia

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See also: nénia, nênia, and neniä

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

nenia (plural nenias)

  1. (Ancient Rome) A funeral song; an elegy.

References

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

From neni- (negative correlative prefix) +‎ -a (correlative suffix of kind).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ne‧ni‧a

Determiner

nenia (accusative singular nenian, plural neniaj, accusative plural neniajn)

  1. no kind of

See also

Esperanto correlatives
Interrogative Demonstrative Indefinite Universal Negative
ki- ti- i- ĉi- neni-
Kind of, sort of -a kia tia ia ĉia nenia
Reason -al kial tial ial ĉial nenial
Time -am kiam tiam iam ĉiam neniam
Place -e kie tie ie ĉie nenie
Motion -en kien tien ien ĉien nenien
Manner -el kiel tiel iel ĉiel neniel
Possessive -es kies ties ies ĉies nenies
Demonstrative pronoun -o kio tio io ĉio nenio
Amount -om kiom tiom iom ĉiom neniom
Demonstrative determiner -u kiu tiu iu ĉiu neniu

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nenia.

Noun

nenia f (plural nenie)

  1. dirge
  2. wail

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from Ancient Greek νηνία (nēnía).

Pronunciation

Noun

nēnia f (genitive nēniae); first declension

  1. a funeral song, dirge
  2. a spell, incantation, enchantment
    Synonyms: carmen, cantiō, cantus, incantāmentum
  3. a song of little consequence, ditty, tune, lullaby
    Synonyms: lallus, lallum
  4. (in the plural) talk of little consequence, trifles, nonsense
    Synonyms: nūgae, nihil
    • 1st c. AD, Phaedrus, Poeta :
      POĒTA / Ioculāre tibi vidētur et sānē levī, / Dum nihil habēmus maius, calamō lūdimus, / Sed dīligenter intuēre hās nēniās / Quantam sub titulīs ūtilitātem reperiēs!
      Poet. / It may seem to you that it's just jests and trifles when I don't have anything better to do and play with the pen: but look at these trifles diligently; you will find so much usefulness under this pretext!
  5. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) a complaint, criticism
    Synonyms: querēla, cēnsūra

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nēnia nēniae
Genitive nēniae nēniārum
Dative nēniae nēniīs
Accusative nēniam nēniās
Ablative nēniā nēniīs
Vocative nēnia nēniae

Descendants

  • → English: nenia
  • → French: nénie
  • → Italian: nenia
  • → Portuguese: nénia, nênia
  • → Romanian: nenie
  • → Spanish: nenia

References

  • “nenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “nenia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “nenia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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