elegía
Spanish, noun/eleˈxia/
elegía is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “elegy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of elegir. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poema corto y lírico que refleja pérdida, dolor o tristeza, casi siempre lamentando una muerte o ruina”.
What does elegía mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineelegy
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of elegir
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poema corto y lírico que refleja pérdida, dolor o tristeza, casi siempre lamentando una muerte o ruina.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of elegía
- elegías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce elegía?
- /eleˈxia/
- [e.leˈxi.a]
- [eleˈxia]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to elegía
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is elegía in Spanish?
elegía appears 1.3 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).