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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τραγῳδῐ́ᾱ (tragōidíā), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tragoedia f (genitive tragoediae); first declension
- (drama) tragedy
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “tragoedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tragoedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tragoedia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tragoedia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a writer of tragedy, comedy: scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
- the Antigone: tragoedia or fabula Antigona (not Antigona trag. or fab.)
- tragic pathos: tragoediae
- “tragoedia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tragoedia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “tragoedia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin