in ancient poetry, a mournful kind of song, sung by a person alone, to give vent to his grief. The word is derived from ἀνοικός "alone," and ἄνω "I sing."

MOEOECIA, from ἀνοικός "alone," and ἄνω "a house;" the name of the first class in Linnaeus's sexual method. See Botany, no 1296.