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|Definition=ὁ, (θρέομαι) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[dirge]], [[lament]], <span class="bibl">Il.24.721</span>, Sapph.136, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>8(7).64</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.79</span>,<span class="bibl">85</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">θ. οὑμός</b> [[for]] me, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>390</span>; εἰπεῖν… θ. θέλω ἐμὸν τὸν αὐτῆς <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1322</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[complaint]], [[sad strain]], h.Pan.18; <b class="b3">Τοργόνων οὔλιον θ</b>. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>12.8</span>; θρῆνοι καὶ ὀδυρμοί <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>398d</span>, etc.: pl., [[lamentations]], θρήνων ᾠδάς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>88</span> (lyr.), etc.; title of poems by Pindar, Stob.4.39.6, etc. (Distd. fr. <b class="b3">ἐπικήδειον</b> by Trypho ap.<span class="bibl">Ammon. <span class="title">Diff.</span>p.54</span> V. (cf. Ptol.Asc.<span class="bibl">p.404H.</span>), <b class="b3">ἐπικήδειον τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ κήδει, θ. δὲ ἐν ᾡδήποτε χρόνῳ</b>.)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[dirge]], [[lament]], [[lamentation]] (IE, Ω 721; on the meaning Diehl RhM 89, 90 a. 112).<br />Compounds: Compp. e. g. <b class="b3">θρην-ῳδός</b> [[who sings a lament]] (Alciphr.) with <b class="b3">-έω</b>, <b class="b3">-ία</b> (E., Plu.), <b class="b3">ἔν-θρηνος</b> [[full of lament]] (Pap.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">θρηνώδης</b> [[like a lament]] (Pl.), <b class="b3">θρήνωμα</b> = <b class="b3">θρῆνος</b> (pap. Ia; <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> only enlarging, Chantraine Formation 186f.). Denomin. verb <b class="b3">θρηνέω</b>, aor. <b class="b3">θρηνῆσαι</b>, also with prefix, e. g. <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">κατα-</b>, <b class="b2">start a lament, lament, wail for</b> (Ω 722) with several derivv.: <b class="b3">θρήνημα</b> [[lament]] (E.), <b class="b3">θρηνη-τής</b>, <b class="b3">-ητήρ</b> (A.; cf. Benveniste Noms d'agent 42) [[lamentation]], also <b class="b3">θρηνήτωρ</b> (Man.); <b class="b3">θρηνητικός</b> (Arist.); <b class="b3">ἐπιθρήν-ησις</b> (Plu.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: To <b class="b3">θρῆνος</b> in the first place ablauting <b class="b3">θρώναξ κηφήν</b>. <b class="b3">Λάκωνες</b> H. and reduplicated <b class="b3">τενθρήνη</b> [[hornet]] (cf. also on <b class="b3">ἀνθρηδών</b>; see Kuiper <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 221f.). Also in other languages we find comparablewords denoting sounds: Skt. <b class="b2">dhráṇati</b> [[sounds]] (gramm.) and the Germanic word for [[Drohne]], e. g. OS [[dreno]], with which cf. also Goth. [[drunjus]] [[sound]], NGerm. [[drönen]] [[drōhnen]] a. o., Lat. [[drēnsō]], <b class="b2">-āre</b> the sound of swans (from Gaulic); in all these cases we have to assume an onomatopoetic elementary relation rather than a genetic connection. (Not here Arm. <b class="b2">dṙnč̣im</b> [[blow the horn]] (Mladenov Mélanges Pedersen 95ff.). Cf. with different anlaut Lith. <b class="b2">trinkėti</b> ! [[drone]]; uncertain Toch. A <b class="b2">träṅk-</b> [[speak]]. - Pok. 255f., W.-Hofmann s. [[drēnsō]], Mayrhofer s. <b class="b2">dhráṇati</b>. (Hardly to <b class="b3">θρέομαι</b>, <b class="b3">θόρυβος</b>, <b class="b3">θρῦλος</b>.) - We have prob. a Pre-Greek word.