tragicomoedia
Latin
Alternative forms
- tragicocōmoedia
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τραγικοκωμῳδία (tragikokōmōidía), with haplology. By surface analysis, tragicus (“tragic”) + cōmoedia (“comedy”).
Noun
tragicōmoedia f (genitive tragicōmoediae); first declension
- tragicomedy
- c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 20.59:
- faciam ut commixta sit: sit tragicomoedia; / nam me perpetuo facere ut sit comoedia, / reges quo veniant et di, non par arbitror.
- I'll make it a mix: a tragicomedy; for I do not find it right for me to make it a comedy through and through, where kings and gods appear.
- faciam ut commixta sit: sit tragicomoedia; / nam me perpetuo facere ut sit comoedia, / reges quo veniant et di, non par arbitror.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tragicōmoedia | tragicōmoediae |
| Genitive | tragicōmoediae | tragicōmoediārum |
| Dative | tragicōmoediae | tragicōmoediīs |
| Accusative | tragicōmoediam | tragicōmoediās |
| Ablative | tragicōmoediā | tragicōmoediīs |
| Vocative | tragicōmoedia | tragicōmoediae |
Descendants
- → Italian: tragicommedia (learned)
- → Middle French: tragicomédie
- French: tragicomédie
- → English: tragicomedy
- → Middle French: tragicomédie
References
- “tragicocomoedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tragicocomoedia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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