Sense

1. a plaintive dirge, ah me for Linus!
2. mournful, plaintive

Examples

• "ἡ δὲ τῶν ἱστουργούντων ᾠδὴ αἴλινοσ, ὡσ Ἐπίχαρμοσ ἐν Ἀταλάνταισ ἱστορεῖ, ἡ δὲ τῶν ταλασιουργῶν ἰούλοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 10 1:3)
• "λίνοσ δὲ καὶ αἴλινοσ οὐ μόνον ἐν πένθεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ’ ἐπ’ εὐτυχεῖ μολπᾷ κατὰ τὸν Εὐριπίδην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 10 4:9)
• οὐκ ἐμάλαξε τεὸν θράσοσ αἴλινοσ αὐδή, σκύλμα κόμησ, αὐχὴν μαλθακὰ κεκλιμένοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2483)

Similar forms

• αἴλινον (12)
• αἴλινος (3)
• αἰλίνοις (2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.