tragicomedy

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French tragicomédie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian tragicommedia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin tragicomoedia, contraction of tragicocomoedia (Plautus), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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) (oġbergakatakergutʻyun)
• Catalan: tragicomèdia f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: tragikomedie f
• Finnish: tragikomedia
• French: tragicomédie (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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