tetralogy

English

Etymology

From tetra- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĕ-trălʹ-ə-jē, IPA^(key): /tɛˈtɹæləd͡ʒi/

Noun

tetralogy (plural tetralogies)

1. A set of four works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as four individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
   1. (historical) A group of four dramas, three tragic and one satiric, exhibited together at the festivals of Dionysus at Athens.
2. (medicine) A combination of four symptoms.
3. (medicine, colloquial) Tetralogy of Fallot.

Synonyms

• (four related works): quadrilogy (nonstandard)

Related terms

• dilogy, duology (2)
• trilogy (3)
• quadrilogy (4)
• pentalogy (5)
• hexalogy (6)
• heptalogy (7)
• octalogy (8)
• ennealogy (9)
• decalogy (10)
• polylogy (2+)

Translations

A series of four related works

• Arabic: رُبَاعِيَّة f (rubāʕiyya)
• Catalan: tetralogia f
• Finnish: tetralogia
• French: tétralogie (fr) f, quadrilogie (fr) f
• Galician: tetraloxía f
• German: Tetralogie (de) f
• Greek: τετραλογία (el) f (tetralogía)
• Malay: tetralogi
• Occitan: tetralogia f
• Polish: tetralogia (pl) f, czteroksiąg (pl) m
• Portuguese: tetralogia (pt) f
• Russian: тетрало́гия (ru) f (tetralógija)
• Spanish: tetralogía (es) f
• Swedish: tetralogi (sv) c