myriologue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In Greece, a funeral song composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend.

Word forms

myriologue myriologues

Etymology

Borrowed from French myriologue, from Greek μοιρολόγι (moirológi), from μοίρα (moíra, “fate”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”).

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