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tragoedia

tragoedia · f

a tragedy

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Where it lives

Fragmenta 1 · 74.07/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 4 · 4.3/10k
Amphitruo 4 · 4.07/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 2 · 3.43/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Amores 5 · 3.2/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 2 · 3.14/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Noctes Atticae 20 · 1.79/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k

Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

trăgoedĭa — Lewis & Short

trăgoedĭa, ae, f., = tragw|di/a,

I a tragedy.

I Lit., Plaut. Am. prol. 54; 93; id. Curc. 5, 1, 1; Cic. Sen. 7, 22; id. Phil. 11, 6, 13; Quint. 1, 5, 52; 1, 8, 6.—

II Transf.

A Tragedy, the art of tragedy: paulum Musa Tragoediae Desit theatris, Hor. C. 2, 1, 9; Ov. Tr. 2, 381.—Personified: ingenti Tragoedia passu, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 11.—

B A lofty or elevated style: neque istis tragoediis tuis ... perturbor, Cic. de Or. 1, 51, 219; so id. ib. 2, 55, 225.—

C A great commotion or disturbance; a spectacle: ejus Appiae nomen quantas tragoedias excitat! Cic. Mil. 7, 18: si tragoedias agamus in nugis, id. de Or. 2, 51, 205: in parvis litibus tragoedias movere, Quint. 6, 1, 36.

In the wild

tragoedia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.52
tragoediam Pliny the Younger, Letters 7.4.2
tragoediam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.2.2
tragoedias Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.66
tragoedias Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.20.5
tragoedia Ovid, Tristia 2.1.381

6 of 116 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tragoedia (scan p. 722; entry #12010).

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