FromAncient Greekτραγικός(tragikós,“of or relating to tragedy”), fromτράγος(trágos,“male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of theDorians.
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tragic (comparativemoretragic,superlativemosttragic)
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tragic (pluraltragics)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“tragic”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
Borrowed fromFrenchtragique, fromLatintragicus.
tragic m orn (feminine singulartragică,masculine pluraltragici,feminine and neuter pluraltragice)
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative | indefinite | tragic | tragică | tragici | tragice | |||
definite | tragicul | tragica | tragicii | tragicele | ||||
genitive- dative | indefinite | tragic | tragice | tragici | tragice | |||
definite | tragicului | tragicei | tragicilor | tragicelor |