threnodic

noun, plural thren·o·dies.

1. a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.

noun plural threnodies or threnodes

1. an ode, song, or speech of lamentation, esp for the dead

n.“song of lamentation,” 1630s, from Greek threnodia, from threnos “dirge, lament” + oide “ode” (see ode). Greek threnos probably is from a PIE imitative root meaning “to murmur, hum;” cf. Old English dran “drone,” Gothic drunjus “sound,” Greek tenthrene “a kind of wasp.”