5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
noun a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
originFrom Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0