tabernariae
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin [Term?].
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tabernāriae
- inflection of tabernārius: