θρῆνος

Cognate to Sanskrit ध्रणति (dhráṇati, “to sound”), Latin drēnsō, and Old English drān (English drone). Compare also θρέομαι (thréomai, “I cry aloud, shriek”). Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin.

θρῆνος • (thrênos) m (genitive θρήνου); second declension

1. wailing, lamenting, dirge

   Synonym: ἰάλεμος (iálemos)

2. complaint

• Θρῆνοι Ἰερεμίου (Thrênoi Ieremíou)

• Greek: θρήνος m (thrínos, “lamentation”)

• “θρῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θρῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θρῆνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θρῆνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• θρῆνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “θρῆνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2355 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• θρῆνος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dirge idem, page 226.
  • elegy idem, page 265.
  • lamentation idem, page 474.
  • threnody idem, page 870.
  • wail idem, page 959.