comedietta

English

Etymology

From the Italian diminutive of commedia (“comedy”).

Noun

comedietta (plural comediettas)

1. A dramatic composition of the comedy class, but not so much elaborated as a regular comedy, and generally consisting of one or at most two acts.
   • 1911, G[eorge] Sa[intsbury], “Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume XXVIII, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 201, column 2:

     He once lay in hiding for two months with the duchesse du Maine at Sceaux, where were produced the comedietta of La Prude and the tragedy of Rome sauvée, […]

References

• Comedietta in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.
• Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)