comedietta

Italian diminutive of commedia (“comedy”).

comedietta (plural comediettas)

1. A dramatic composition of the comedy class, but not so much elaborated as a regular comedy, and generally consisting of one or at most two acts.
   • {{RQ:Britannica 11th|author=w:[[George Edward Bateman Saintsbury|G[eorge] Sa[intsbury]]]|entry=Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de|volume=XXVIII|page=201|column=2|passage=He once lay in hiding for two months with the duchesse du Maine at Sceaux, where were produced the comedietta of La Prude and the tragedy of Rome sauvée, […] }}

• Comedietta in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.
• Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)