• (America) IPA: /ˌɛləˈdʒaɪæk/, /ˌɛləˈdʒaɪək/
• (British) IPA: /ˌɛlɨˈdʒʌɪək/

elegiac

1. Of or relating to an elegy.

   the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter

2. Expressing sorrow or mourning.
   • 1808 February 21, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Third: To William Erskine, Esq.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: Printed by J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, OCLC 270129616 ↗, stanza III, page 119 ↗:

     Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?

   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “First Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, OCLC 1000396166 ↗, page 36 ↗:

     And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,

• French: élégiaque
• German: elegisch
• Spanish: elegíaco, elegíaca

elegiac (plural elegiacs)

1. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.