adjective
- Gr. & Latin Prosody of or composed in dactylic-hexameter couplets, the second line (sometimes called a pentameter) having only an accented syllable in the third and sixth feet: the form was used for elegies and various other lyric poems
- of, like, or fit for an elegy
- sad; mournful; plaintive
Origin:
LL elegiacus < Gr elegeiakos < elegeia: see elegy