ELEGIAC

also ~al adjective Etymology: Late Latin ~us, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeion Date: 1542 1. of, relating to, or consisting of two dactylic hexameter lines the second of which lacks the arsis in the third and sixth feet, b. written in or consisting of ~ couplets, noted for having written poetry in such couplets, of or relating to the period in Greece about the seventh century B.C. when poetry written in such couplets flourished, of, relating to, or comprising elegy or an elegy, ~ noun ~ally adverb