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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía), from κῶμος (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) or ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ἀείδω (aeídō, “I sing”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [koːˈmoe̯.di.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈmɛː.di.a]
Noun
cōmoedia f (genitive cōmoediae); first declension
- A comedy (play)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: comedia
- Catalan: comèdia
- → Czech: komedie
- → Dutch: komedie
- → Danish: komedie
- → English: comedy, comedie (“archaic, often affected as such for humorous effect”), comœdie (“obsolete”), comœdy (“archaic”)
- French: comédie
- Galician: comedia
- → German: Komödie
- Italian: commedia
- → Polish: komedia
- Portuguese: comédia
- Romanian: comedie
- Sicilian: cummedia
- → Spanish: comedia
- → Cebuano: komedya
- Venetan: komedie
References
- “comoedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comoedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “comoedia”, 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
- a writer of tragedy, comedy: scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
- “comoedia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comoedia in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “comoedia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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