This arrived in my e-mail today from Dictionary.com:
Word of the Day for Sunday, September 11, 2011
elegiac \el-i-JAHY-uhk\, adjective:
1. Relating to the mourning or remembering of the dead.
2. Used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
3. Expressing sorrow.
Elegiac stems from the Greek elegos, "poem or song of lament," a word that may date back to the Phrygian language.
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