tragi-comb. form

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin tragicomoedia.

Etymology: < tragi- (in post-classical Latin tragicomoedia tragicomedy n.). Compare tragic adj.Attested earliest in the second half of the 16th cent. in tragicomical adj., and subsequently in the late 16th cent. in the borrowing tragicomedy n. Compare Italian tragi- (formations in which are found from at least the late 16th cent., e.g. tragicomico tragicomic adj.).

1. Forming nouns with the sense ‘tragedy and ——’ or ‘tragic ——’, as tragi-catastrophe, tragi-drama, tragi-farce, tragi-romance, etc. See also tragicomedy n., tragi-comedietta n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > combination of comical and tragic

tragico-comedy1603

tragicomedy1603

tragicomicality1830

tragi-farce1893

1735 J. Oldmixon Hist. Eng.: Queen Anne 430/1 Sacheverel was so profane as to bring the Character of a Comedy into his Sermon, which in Truth was of itself a Tragi-Farce.

1811 Henry & Isabella I. 169 The love of tragi-catastrophe, common to vulgar minds.

1893 Sat. Rev. 1 Apr. 342/1 The pitiable tragi-farce of French politics.

1927 Daily Express 10 May 8/2 While this tragi-farce continues, a business in which £50,000,000 of British money is invested has been thrown into jeopardy.

1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 28 June 48 ‘The Threepenny Opera’, the Bertolt Brecht tragi-musical now at Lincoln Center.

1990 Illustr. London News Summer 91/4 This modern Jacobean tragi-drama by Peter Flannery is a blackly comic view of post-war British society.

2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Jan. vii. 1/4 Ang Lee's gay Western tragi-romance ‘Brokeback Mountain’.

2. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘tragic and ——’, as tragi-farcical, tragi-romantic, tragi-satirical, etc. See also tragicomic adj., tragicomical adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy > and comedy

tragicomical1567

comico-tragical1577

tragicomic1637

tragi-farcical1789

comico-tragic1827

tragico-comical1828

tragico-farcical1828

tragico-comic1832

1789 Gentleman's Mag. May 251/1 Mr. Pitt..whom this tragi-farcical Squire calls an artful boy.

1847 A. Humphrey Eng. Prosody ix. 145 We have some [poems] which are denominated tender pathetic, and some, tragi-pathetic.

1896 Daily News 17 Jan. 6/3 The fantastic tragi-farcical experiment.

1913 Eng. Rev. Dec. 73 Art is upon the town, said Whistler in his tragi-flippant manner.

1916 Amer. Art News 16 Dec. 5/4 Willette has excelled himself in two tragi-satirical drawings.

1984 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 43 638 Nostalgia..which cast the history of the fall of the Ming in a tragi-romantic setting.

2002 Time Out N.Y. 18 Apr. 68/1 Foer's depictions of sex..veer from slapstick to tragisentimental.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	tragi-
释义	tragi-comb. form Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin tragicomoedia. Etymology: < tragi- (in post-classical Latin tragicomoedia tragicomedy n.). Compare tragic adj.Attested earliest in the second half of the 16th cent. in tragicomical adj., and subsequently in the late 16th cent. in the borrowing tragicomedy n. Compare Italian tragi- (formations in which are found from at least the late 16th cent., e.g. tragicomico tragicomic adj.). 1. Forming nouns with the sense ‘tragedy and ——’ or ‘tragic ——’, as tragi-catastrophe, tragi-drama, tragi-farce, tragi-romance, etc. See also tragicomedy n., tragi-comedietta n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > combination of comical and tragic tragico-comedy1603 tragicomedy1603 tragicomicality1830 tragi-farce1893 1735 J. Oldmixon Hist. Eng.: Queen Anne 430/1 Sacheverel was so profane as to bring the Character of a Comedy into his Sermon, which in Truth was of itself a Tragi-Farce. 1811 Henry & Isabella I. 169 The love of tragi-catastrophe, common to vulgar minds. 1893 Sat. Rev. 1 Apr. 342/1 The pitiable tragi-farce of French politics. 1927 Daily Express 10 May 8/2 While this tragi-farce continues, a business in which £50,000,000 of British money is invested has been thrown into jeopardy. 1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 28 June 48 ‘The Threepenny Opera’, the Bertolt Brecht tragi-musical now at Lincoln Center. 1990 Illustr. London News Summer 91/4 This modern Jacobean tragi-drama by Peter Flannery is a blackly comic view of post-war British society. 2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Jan. vii. 1/4 Ang Lee's gay Western tragi-romance ‘Brokeback Mountain’. 2. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘tragic and ——’, as tragi-farcical, tragi-romantic, tragi-satirical, etc. See also tragicomic adj., tragicomical adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy > and comedy tragicomical1567 comico-tragical1577 tragicomic1637 tragi-farcical1789 comico-tragic1827 tragico-comical1828 tragico-farcical1828 tragico-comic1832 1789 Gentleman's Mag. May 251/1 Mr. Pitt..whom this tragi-farcical Squire calls an artful boy. 1847 A. Humphrey Eng. Prosody ix. 145 We have some [poems] which are denominated tender pathetic, and some, tragi-pathetic. 1896 Daily News 17 Jan. 6/3 The fantastic tragi-farcical experiment. 1913 Eng. Rev. Dec. 73 Art is upon the town, said Whistler in his tragi-flippant manner. 1916 Amer. Art News 16 Dec. 5/4 Willette has excelled himself in two tragi-satirical drawings. 1984 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 43 638 Nostalgia..which cast the history of the fall of the Ming in a tragi-romantic setting. 2002 Time Out N.Y. 18 Apr. 68/1 Foer's depictions of sex..veer from slapstick to tragisentimental. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < comb. form1735
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