Etymology

melpomenish

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Today it means: Tragic; relating to tragedy in a literary or theatrical work. Full definition →

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The story

From Μελπομένη (Melpomene), the Greek Muse of tragedy, + -ish.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.