tabernariae

English

Etymology

Latin [Term?]

Noun

tabernariae pl (plural only)

1. (historical) Ancient Roman comedies dealing with the life of the lower classes.
   • 1900, Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel, Ludwig von Schwabe, Teuffel's History of Roman Literature, volume 1, page 167:

     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, […]

   • 2022, William Smith, A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:

     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.

Latin

Adjective

tabernāriae

1. inflection of tabernārius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine plural
   2. genitive/dative feminine singular