THRENETIC

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ETYMOLOGY
from Greek θρῆνος funeral lament. 
So obs. French thrène (1526 in Godef. Compl.).

EXAMPLE
From: A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece
By William Mure, Volume III, 1850
Biography of Lyric Poets. Sappho, 600 B.C.