tragicomedy

English

Alternative forms

comicotragedy, 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)

(uncountable) The genre of drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
(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／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