Noun: tragedie
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
| Sg. | tragedie |
| Pl. | tragediën; tragedies |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like tragedie
weerssituatie,
jurisdictie,
evangelie,
schalie,
akademie,
motorolie,
eminentie,
monopolie,
slavenkolonie,
negotie,
provincie,
malie,
assurantie,
tragedie,
arterie,
academie,
materie,
strafkolonie,
venditie,
taxatie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French tragedie, from Latin tragoedia, from Ancient Greek τραγῳδία (tragōidía, “epic play, tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians. See: Latin Nouns '
tragoedia', Ancient Greek Nouns '
τραγῳδία'.
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