The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromθρηνῳδία“lamentation”
- English todaythrenody
From Ancient Greek θρηνῳδία (thrēnōidía, “lamentation”). Compare the New Latin thrēnōdia.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekθρηνῳδία all →
threnode
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.