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Nenia Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Nenia Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
A funeral song; an elegy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA funeral song; an elegy.
nenia
\ne"ni*a\ (?), n. [l. nenia, naenia.] a funeral song; an elegy.
Nenia Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Nenia Dea (Engl.: Goddess Nenia; rarely Naenia) was an ancient funeral deity of Rome, who had a sanctuary outside of the Porta Viminalis. The cult of the Nenia is doubtlessly a very old one, but according to Georg Wissowa the location of Nenia's shrine (sacellum) outside of the center of early Rome indicates that she didn't belong to the earliest circle of Roman deities. In a different interpretation her shrine was located outside of the old city walls, because it had been custom for all gods connected to death or dying.
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