nenia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
nenia (plural nenias)
- (Ancient Rome) A funeral song; an elegy.
References[edit]
- “nenia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From neni- (negative correlative prefix) + -a (correlative suffix of kind).
Pronunciation[edit]
Determiner[edit]
nenia (accusative singular nenian, plural neniaj, accusative plural neniajn)
- no kind of
See also[edit]
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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
nenia f (plural nenie)
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps from Ancient Greek νηνία (nēnía).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈneː.ni.a/, [ˈneːniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈne.ni.a/, [ˈnɛːniä]
Noun[edit]
nēnia f (genitive nēniae); first declension
- a funeral song, dirge
- a spell, incantation, enchantment
- Synonyms: carmen, cantiō, cantus, incantāmentum
- a song of little consequence, ditty, tune, lullaby
- (in the plural) talk of little consequence, trifles, nonsense
- 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!
- POĒTA / Ioculāre tibi vidētur et sānē levī, / Dum nihil habēmus maius, calamō lūdimus, / Sed dīligenter intuēre hās nēniās / Quantam sub titulīs ūtilitātem reperiēs!
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) a complaint, criticism
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
- → English: nenia
- → French: nénie
- → Italian: nenia
- → Portuguese: nénia, nênia
- → Romanian: nenie
- → Spanish: nenia
References[edit]
- “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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