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Liebestod
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English
Etymology
From en de Liebestod, from de Liebe love + de Tod death.
Noun
Liebestode
en music literature An aria or duet performed in opera marking the suicide of lovers; a suicide.
en 1979 Angela Carter The Company of Wolves The Bloody Chamber Vintage 2006 138 She saw how his jaw began to slaver and the room was full of the clamour of the forest's Liebestod but the wise child never flinched
Further reading
German
Etymology
de Liebe -s- Tod, from Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde (1865).
Noun
m,(e)s
Liebestod
Declension
m,(e)s
Further reading
de