τραγῳδία

Ancient Greek

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Etymology

From τραγῳδός (tragōidos) from τράγος (tragos, “goat”) + ἀοιδός (aoidos, “singer”)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /traɡɔ͜ɔ͜ɪdí.a͜a/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /traɣoːdíaː/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /traɣoðía/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /traɣoðía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /tɾaɣoðía/

Noun

τραγῳδία (genitive τραγῳδίας) f, first declension; (tragōidiā)

1. a tragedy or heroic play
   • 4th century BC, Aristotle, Poetics, 3.5
   • 460-420 BC, Herodotus, Histories, 5.67
   • 4th century BC, Aristotle, Poetics, 4.14
2. (generally) any grave, serious poetry
   • 366-348 BC, Plato, Theaetetus, 152.E, (Compare The Republic, 605.C)
   1. an exaggerated speech, made by a prosecutor
      • Hypereides, For Lycophron, 10
   2. tragic fictions and terrors
      • Polybius, The Histories, 6.56,11
      • Diodorus Siculus, 19.8
      • Plutarch, Demetrius, 41
      • Aratus, 15
   3. (generally) pomp, display
      • Bentley, Phalaris, 353
      • Lucian, The Dream or Lucian's Career, 24
   4. a melancholy event, a tragedy
      • 5th, 4th century BC, Plato, Laws, 817.B
      • 5th, 4th century BC, Plato, Philebus, 50.B
   5. song
      • Boissonade, Anecdota, 4.411,892

Inflection

First declension of τραγῳδίᾱ, τραγῳδίᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τραγῳδίᾱ	τραγῳδίᾱ	τραγῳδίαι
Genitive	τραγῳδίᾱς	τραγῳδίαιν	τραγῳδιῶν
Dative	τραγῳδίᾳ	τραγῳδίαιν	τραγῳδίαις
Accusative	τραγῳδίᾱν	τραγῳδίᾱ	τραγῳδίᾱς
Vocative	τραγῳδίᾱ	τραγῳδίᾱ	τραγῳδίαι

Antonyms

• (serious poetry): κωμῳδία

Descendants

• English: tragedy
• Latin: tragoedia
• Russian: трагедия (tragedija)

References

• LSJ 8th edition