θρήνων (threnon)

θρήνων is an Ancient Greek form of θρηνέω, meaning “lament, wail”.

It can also be a form of θρῆνος, “lament, dirge”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 1211: ἐπεὶ δὲ θρήνων καὶ γόων ἐπαύσατο,

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 6·2: … ἐπικαλούμενος δῆλός ἐστιν· ὅταν δὲ τὸν ἄνδρα τῆς ἀδελφῆς ἠφανισμένον ἐν θαλάττῃ καὶ μὴ τυχόντα νομίμου ταφῆς θρηνῶν λέγῃ μετριώτερον ἂν τὴν συμφορὰν ἐνεγκεῖν εἰ κείνου κεφαλὴν καὶ χαρίεντα μέλεα Ἥφαιστος καθαροῖσιν ἐν εἵμασιν …

All forms of θρηνέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.