tragédia
Portuguese, noun
tragédia is spelled T-R-A-G-É-D-I-A (8 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,381st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tragédia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “tragedy (work in which the main character is suffers negative consequences)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, tragedia is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tipo de peça teatral difundida na Grécia antiga”.
What does tragédia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetragedy (work in which the main character is suffers negative consequences)
- 2
femininetragedy (genre of such works, and the art of producing them)
- 3
femininetragedy (disastrous event)
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of tragédia
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tipo de peça teatral difundida na Grécia antiga 2. peça teatral comum, em versos e que termina em fatalidades, acontecimentos funestos 3. acontecimento que gera lástima, comoção ou terror
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tragédia
- tragedias plural
- tragédias plural
- tragedia alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tragédia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tragédia in Portuguese?
tragédia appears 19 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).