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“tragic, tragical” in Latin
tragicustragic; Relating to tragedy or to a tragic dramatrīstissad, unhappy, melancholy, morose; sorrowful, mournful; disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)lūctuōsussorrowful, sad; lamentable, doleful, mournfulmiserābilispitiable, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, wretched, sad, pitiful, patheticatrōxfierce, savage, bloody; heinous, cruel, severe; terrible, frightening, dreadfultragicōmoediatragicomedy
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
tragic, tragical
PROP., tragicus. Tragi-comic piece, tragicomoedia (Plaut., Amph., Prol., 59).
Figuratively, tristis: luctuosus: miserabilis: atrox (☞ not tragicus in this sense in good prose). So much concerning the tragical end of Alexander of Epirus, haec de Alexandri Epirensis tristi exitu: a tragical event, casus miserabilis.
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- What is the Latin word for tragic, tragical?
- The usual Latin words for “tragic, tragical” are tragicus, trīstis, lūctuōsus; also miserābilis, atrōx, tragicōmoedia. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.