comicus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoː.mɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.mi.kus]

Adjective

cōmicus (feminine cōmica, neuter cōmicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. comic; (relational) comedy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cōmicus	cōmica	cōmicum		cōmicī	cōmicae	cōmica
genitive	cōmicī	cōmicae	cōmicī		cōmicōrum	cōmicārum	cōmicōrum
dative	cōmicō	cōmicae	cōmicō		cōmicīs
accusative	cōmicum	cōmicam	cōmicum		cōmicōs	cōmicās	cōmica
ablative	cōmicō	cōmicā	cōmicō		cōmicīs
vocative	cōmice	cōmica	cōmicum		cōmicī	cōmicae	cōmica

Noun

cōmicus m (genitive cōmicī); second declension

1. comic (actor or poet), comedian

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōmicus	cōmicī
genitive	cōmicī	cōmicōrum
dative	cōmicō	cōmicīs
accusative	cōmicum	cōmicōs
ablative	cōmicō	cōmicīs
vocative	cōmice	cōmicī

Related terms

• cōmoedia
• cōmoedus

References

• “comicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “comicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "comicus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “comicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a writer of tragedy, comedy: scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
    
• comicus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016