tragoedia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τραγῳδῐ́ᾱ (tragōidíā), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /traˈɡoe̯.di.a/, [t̪räˈɡoe̯d̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /traˈd͡ʒe.di.a/, [t̪räˈd͡ʒɛːd̪iä]

Noun

tragoedia f (genitive tragoediae); first declension

1. (drama) tragedy

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tragoedia	tragoediae
Genitive	tragoediae	tragoediārum
Dative	tragoediae	tragoediīs
Accusative	tragoediam	tragoediās
Ablative	tragoediā	tragoediīs
Vocative	tragoedia	tragoediae

Descendants

• English: tragedy
• French: tragédie
• German: Tragödie
• Italian: tragedia
• Polish: tragedia
• Portuguese: tragédia
• Romanian: tragedie
• Russian: траге́дия (tragédija)
• Spanish: tragedia

References

• “tragoedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tragoedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tragoedia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tragoedia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a writer of tragedy, comedy: scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
    
  • the Antigone: tragoedia or fabula Antigona (not Antigona trag. or fab.)
    
  • tragic pathos: tragoediae
    
• “tragoedia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tragoedia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “tragoedia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin