tragicomedy

English

Alternative forms

• comicotragedy, comitragedy

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tragicomédie (whence French tragicomédie), itself borrowed from Italian tragicommedia, from Latin tragicōmoedia, tragicocōmoedia. By surface analysis, tragic +‎ comedy, with haplology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɹædʒɪˈkɒmədi/

Noun

tragicomedy (countable and uncountable, plural tragicomedies)

1. (uncountable) The genre of drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
2. (countable) 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) (oġbergakatakergutʻyun)
• Catalan: tragicomèdia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悲喜劇／悲喜剧 (zh) (bēixǐjù)

• Czech: tragikomedie f
• Finnish: tragikomedia (fi)
• French: tragicomédie (fr) f
• Galician: traxicomedia f
• German: Tragikomödie (de) f
• Greek: ιλαροτραγωδία (el) f (ilarotragodía)
• Macedonian: трагикомедија f (tragikomedija)
• Polish: tragikomedia (pl) f
• Russian: трагикоме́дия (ru) f (tragikomédija)
• Spanish: tragicomedia f
• Tagalog: lunus-katawanan

See also

• dramedy
• seriocomic