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tabernariae

tabernariae noun: ancient Roman comedies dealing with the life of the lower classes.

Noun

tabernariae pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) Ancient Roman comedies dealing with the life of the lower classes.
    • All his plays bear Latin titles and their plots prove them to have been tabernariae. The fragments show a broad and popular tone, a bold, lively and fresh manner reminding one of Plautus, […]1900, Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel, Ludwig von Schwabe, Teuffel's History of Roman Literature, volume 1, page 167
    • These Atellane plays were not praetextatae, i.e. comedies in which magistrates and persons of rank were introduced, nor tabernariae, the characters in which were taken from low life; they rather seem to have been a union of high comedy and its parody.2022, William Smith, A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

Origin of tabernariae

From Latin [Term?].

Questions about tabernariae

What does tabernariae mean?
Tabernariae means ancient Roman comedies dealing with the life of the lower classes.
What part of speech is tabernariae?
Tabernariae is a noun.

Words near tabernariae in the dictionary

  1. tabernacling
  2. tabernacular
  3. tabernaemontanine
  4. tabernanthalog
  5. tabernanthine
  6. tabernariae
  7. tabernas
  8. tabers
  9. tabersonine
  10. tabes
  11. tabes dorsales

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