τριταγωνιστής

English (LSJ)

τριταγωνιστοῦ, ὁ, on the stage, tritagonist, player who took the third part, name of a play by Antiphanes; applied by Demosthenes to Aeschines, 18.129,209.

French (Bailly abrégé)

οῦ (ὁ) :
qui joue les troisièmes rôles, càd acteur de troisième ordre, acteur médiocre.
Étymologie: τρίτος, ἀγωνίζομαι.

German (Pape)

ὁ, der dritte Kämpfer, bes. auf der Bühne der Schauspieler, der in einem dramatischen Stücke die dritte Rolle spielt, Dem. 18.129.

Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)

τριταγωνιστής -οῦ, ὁ [τρίτος, ἀγωνιστής] tritagonist (derde acteur).

Russian (Dvoretsky)

τρῐτᾰγωνιστής: οῦ ὁ актер на третьестепенных ролях Dem.

Greek Monolingual

ο, ΝΑ
νεοελλ.
αυτός που έχει ασήμαντη επίδραση σε ένα έργο ή σε κάποια πράξη
αρχ.
ο ηθοποιός που έπαιζε τον τρίτο, τον λιγότερο σημαντικό ρόλο στο έργο.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < τρίτος + ἀγωνιστής (πρβλ. πρωταγωνιστής)].

Greek Monotonic

τρῐτᾰγωνιστής: -οῦ, ὁ, αυτός που υποδύεται τρίτο ή μη σημαντικό πρόσωπο στη σκηνή, σε Δημ.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

τρῐτᾰγωνιστής: -οῦ, ὁ, ἐπὶ τῆς σκηνῆς, ὁ ὑποκριτὴς ὁ ὑποδυόμενος τὸ τρίτον ἢ κατώτατον πρόσωπον, ὄνομα δράματός τινος τοῦ Ἀντιφάνους· λέγεται ὑπὸ τοῦ Δημοσθένους ἐπὶ τοῦ Αἰσχίνου, 270. 12., 297. 26.

Middle Liddell

τρῐτ-ᾰγωνιστής, οῦ, ὁ,
on the stage, the player who took the third part, a third-rate actor, Dem.

English (Woodhouse)

third rate actor, third rate player, third-rate actor

Wikipedia EN

In literature, the tritagonist (from Ancient Greek τριταγωνιστής (tritagōnistḗs) 'third actor') or tertiary main character is the third most important character of a narrative, after the protagonist and deuteragonist. In ancient Greek drama, the tritagonist was the third member of the acting troupe.

As a character, a tritagonist may act as the instigator or cause of the sufferings of the protagonist. Despite being the least sympathetic character of the drama, they occasion the situations by which pity and sympathy for the protagonist are excited.

The part of the tritagonist emerged from earlier forms of two-actor drama. Where two actors only allowed for a principal character and their adversary, moving the part of adversary to a third actor (the tritagonist) allowed for the second actor (the deuteragonist) to play roles as a confidant or aide to the principal character, and thereby elicit greater character depth from the principal character by having the protagonist explain their feelings and motivations to an on-stage listener. As Ancient Greek theater recitations were partly melodic, the role of the tritagonist would typically go to a performer with a voice in the bass range (as compared to the protagonist as tenor and the deuteragonist as baritone). Cicero, in his Divinatio in Caecilium, reported that the tritagonist (being a role of lesser importance than the protagonist) would often have to subdue his voice if he was naturally stronger than the protagonist.

Notable Ancient Greek actors who worked in this role include the orator Aeschines, who was held by Demosthenes to have been untalented as a tritagonist, and Myniscus, who was tritagonist under the playwright Aeschylus.

In some forms of Greek theater, it was traditional for the tritagonist to enter the stage from the left.

Wikipedia DE

Ein Tritagonist ist in der Literatur der tertiäre Hauptcharakter (aus dem Altgriechischen: τριταγωνιστής, tritagōnistḗs, etwa ‚dritter Akteur‘) nach dem Protagonisten und Deuteragonisten der drittwichtigste Charakter eines Werkes. Im Theater der griechischen Antike war der Tritagonist das dritte Mitglied der Schauspielertruppe.

Er kann als Ursache der Leiden des Protagonisten fungieren. Trotz der Tatsache, dass der Tritagonist selten ein sympathischer Charakter ist, verursacht er Situationen, in denen Mitleid und Sympathie für den Protagonisten erregt werden.

Translations

az: tritaqonist; ca: tritagonista; cs: tritagonista; de: Tritagonist; diq: kaykero hirêyın; en: tritagonist; es: tritagonista; eu: tritagonista; fr: tritagoniste; id: tritagonis; ko: 제삼배우; nl: tritagonist; pt: tritagonista; ru: тритагонист; sk: tritagonista; tr: üçüncü oyuncu; uk: тритагоніст; zh_yue: 第三主角