tritagonist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ancient Greek, originally in Greek drama, from ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”). By surface analysis, trit- (“third”) + agonist (“combatant, participant”).
Noun[edit]
tritagonist (plural tritagonists)
- In Greek drama, the actor who played the third role (after the protagonist and deuteragonist)
- The third most important character in a story, after the protagonist and deuteragonist
Coordinate terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
third role
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Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tritagònist m (Cyrillic spelling тритаго̀нист)
Declension[edit]
Declension of tritagonist
singular | plural | |
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nominative | tritagonist | tritagonisti |
genitive | tritagonista | tritagonista |
dative | tritagonistu | tritagonistima |
accusative | tritagonista | tritagoniste |
vocative | tritagoniste | tritagonisti |
locative | tritagonistu | tritagonistima |
instrumental | tritagonistom | tritagonistima |
Further reading[edit]
- “tritagonist” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Categories:
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms prefixed with trit-
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Ancient Greece
- en:Drama
- en:Fictional characters
- en:Narratology
- en:People
- en:Stock characters
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns