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- Ancient Greek · derived fromτραγικός“of or relating to tragedy”
- English todaytragic
From Ancient Greek τραγικός (tragikós, “of or relating to tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.