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Latin
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.
Declension
First-declension noun.
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