tritagonist

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek, originally in Greek drama, from ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “a combatant, pleader, actor”). By surface analysis, trit- (“third”) +‎ agonist (“combatant, participant”).

Noun

tritagonist (plural tritagonists)

1. In Greek drama, the actor who played the third role (after the protagonist and deuteragonist)
2. The third most important character in a story, after the protagonist and deuteragonist

Coordinate terms

• protagonist
• deuteragonist

Translations

third role

• Azerbaijani: tritaqonist
• Catalan: tritagonista m
• Czech: tritagonista m
• French: tritagoniste (fr) m or f
• German: Tritagonist m, Tritagonistin f
• Italian: tritagonista m
• Korean: 제삼배우 (jesambae'u)
• Portuguese: tritagonista (pt) m
• Russian: тритагонист (ru) m (tritagonist)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тритаго̀нист m

  Roman: tritagònist (sh) m

• Slovak: tritagonista m
• Spanish: tritagonista m

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tritaɡǒnist/
• Hyphenation: tri‧ta‧go‧nist

Noun

tritagònist m (Cyrillic spelling тритаго̀нист)

1. tritagonist

Declension

Declension of tritagonist

	singular	plural
nominative	tritagonist	tritagonisti
genitive	tritagonista	tritagonista
dative	tritagonistu	tritagonistima
accusative	tritagonista	tritagoniste
vocative	tritagoniste	tritagonisti
locative	tritagonistu	tritagonistima
instrumental	tritagonistom	tritagonistima

Further reading

• “tritagonist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024