Etymology

myriologue

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Today it means: In Greece, a funeral song composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend. Full definition →

French myriologue ← Greek μοιρολόγι
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The story

  1. Greek · derived fromμοιρολόγι
  2. French · borrowed frommyriologue
  3. English todaymyriologue

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

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.