tragicomedy

English

Etymology

From Middle French tragicomédie, from Italian tragicommedia, from Late Latin tragicomoedia, contraction of tragicocomoedia (Plautus), from Latin tragicus (“tragic”) comoedia (“comedy”).

Noun

tragicomedy (plural tragicomedies)

1. A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.

Derived terms

• tragicomedian
• tragicomedic
• tragicomedienne

• tragicomic
• tragicomical
• tragicomically

Translations

drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy

• Armenian: ողբերգակատակերգություն (hy) (ołbergakatakergutʿyun)
• Czech: tragikomedie f
• French: tragicomédie (fr) f
• Galician: traxicomedia f
• German: Tragikomödie (de) f

• Greek: ιλαροτραγωδία (el) f (ilarotragodía)
• Macedonian: трагикомедија f (tragikomédija)
• Russian: трагикоме́дия (ru) f (tragikomédija)
• Spanish: tragicomedia f
• Tagalog: lunus-katawanan