Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Elegy

Elegy , noun

[Latin elegia, Greek {not transcribed}, fem. sing. (compare {not transcribed}, prop., neut. plural of {not transcribed} a distich in elegiac verse), from {not transcribed} elegiac, from {not transcribed} a song of mourning.]

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. — Shakespeare