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English
Etymology
From Latin .
Noun
tabernariae pl (plural only)
- (historical) Ancient Roman comedies dealing with the life of the lower classes.
1900, Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel, Ludwig von Schwabe, Teuffel's History of Roman Literature, volume 1, page 167:All his plays bear Latin titles and their plots prove them to have been tabernariae. The fragments show a broad and popular tone, a bold, lively and fresh manner reminding one of Plautus, […]
2022, William Smith, A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:These Atellane plays were not praetextatae, i.e. comedies in which magistrates and persons of rank were introduced, nor tabernariae, the characters in which were taken from low life; they rather seem to have been a union of high comedy and its parody.
Latin
Adjective
tabernāriae
- inflection of tabernārius:
- nominative/vocative feminine plural
- genitive/dative feminine singular