Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /traɣoðía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /traɣoðía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tɾaɣoðía/

Noun

τραγῳδίᾱ • ‎(tragōidíā) f ‎(genitive τραγῳδίας); first declension

1. a tragedy or heroic play
   • Aristotle, Poetics 3.5
   • Herodotus, Histories 5.67
   • Aristotle, Poetics 4.14
2. (generally) any grave, serious poetry
   • Plato, Theaetetus 152.E, (Compare The Republic 605.C)
   1. an exaggerated speech, made by a prosecutor
      • Hypereides, For Lycophron 10
   2. tragic fictions and terrors
      • Polybius, The Histories 6.56.11
      • Diodorus Siculus, Library 19.8
      • Plutarch, Demetrius 41
      • Aratus, Phaenomena 15
   3. (generally) pomp, display
      • Bentley, Phalaris 353
      • Lucian, The Dream or Lucian's Career 24
   4. a melancholy event, a tragedy
      • Plato, Laws 817.B
      • Plato, Philebus 50.B
   5. song
      • Boissonade, Anecdota 4.411.892

Inflection

Antonyms

• (serious poetry): κωμῳδία ‎(kōmōidía)

Descendants

• English: tragedy
• Greek: τραγωδία f ‎(tragodía)
• Latin: tragoedia
• Russian: трагедия ‎(tragedija)

References

• τραγῳδία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τραγῳδία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «τραγῳδία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • melodrama idem, page 524.
  • tragedy idem, page 886.
• LSJ 8th edition