tragicomedy

English

Alternative forms

• comitragedy

Etymology

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

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) (ołbergakatakergutʿyun)
• Catalan: tragicomèdia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悲喜劇 (zh), 悲喜剧 (zh) (bēixǐjù)

• Czech: tragikomedie f
• Finnish: tragikomedia
• French: tragicomédie (fr) f

• Galician: traxicomedia f
• German: Tragikomödie (de) f
• Greek: ιλαροτραγωδία (el) f (ilarotragodía)
• Macedonian: трагикомедија f (tragikomedija)
• Russian: трагикоме́дия (ru) f (tragikomédija)
• Spanish: tragicomedia f
• Tagalog: lunus-katawanan

See also

• dramedy
• seriocomic