"tragicomedy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌtɹædʒɪˈkɒmədi/ Forms: tragicomedies [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French tragicomédie (whence French tragicomédie), itself borrowed from Italian tragicommedia, from Latin tragicōmoedia, tragicocōmoedia. By surface analysis, tragic + comedy, with haplology. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|frm|tragicomédie|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French tragicomédie, {{bor+|en|frm|tragicomédie}} Borrowed from Middle French tragicomédie, {{cog|fr|tragicomédie}} French tragicomédie, {{der|en|it|tragicommedia}} Italian tragicommedia, {{der|en|la|tragicōmoedia}} Latin tragicōmoedia, {{m|la|tragicocōmoedia}} tragicocōmoedia, {{surf|en|tragic|comedy}} By surface analysis, tragic + comedy, {{glossary|haplology}} haplology Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tragicomedy (countable and uncountable, plural tragicomedies)
  1. (uncountable) The genre of drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Comedy, Drama, Genres
    Sense id: en-tragicomedy-en-noun-AU3vox5X Disambiguation of Comedy: 50 50 Disambiguation of Drama: 53 47 Disambiguation of Genres: 78 22 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English oxymorons Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 88 12 Disambiguation of English oxymorons: 81 19
  2. (countable) A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Comedy, Drama Translations (drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy): ողբերգակատակերգություն (oġbergakatakergutʻyun) (Armenian), tragicomèdia [feminine] (Catalan), 悲喜劇 (Chinese Mandarin), 悲喜剧 (bēixǐjù) (Chinese Mandarin), tragikomedie [feminine] (Czech), tragikomedia (Finnish), tragicomédie [feminine] (French), traxicomedia [feminine] (Galician), Tragikomödie [feminine] (German), ιλαροτραγωδία (ilarotragodía) [feminine] (Greek), трагикомедија (tragikomedija) [feminine] (Macedonian), tragikomedia [feminine] (Polish), трагикоме́дия (tragikomédija) [feminine] (Russian), tragicomedia [feminine] (Spanish), lunus-katawanan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-tragicomedy-en-noun-NV7vboFv Disambiguation of Comedy: 50 50 Disambiguation of Drama: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy': 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: comicotragedy, comitragedy Derived forms: tragicomedian, tragicomedic, tragicomedienne, tragicomic, tragicomical, tragicomically Related terms: dramedy, seriocomic

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.