coronach

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

From Scottish Gaelic corranach and Irish corānach.

Coronach on Sir Lauchlan, Chief of Maclean. — The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott
At the grave, the orator, or senachie, pronounced the panegyric of the defunct, every period being confirmed by a yell of the coronach. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, T. (Tobias) Smollett
The men put to sea and are drowned; the ladies who will sit vainly waiting, the wives who will stand “lang, lang, wi’ their gold kaims in their hair,” give one in belated, unconscious, and imperfect form a survival of the old clan sorrow, a coronach in gloss. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere

dirge, lament, requiem, threnody

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