comédie

See also: comedie

French

Alternative forms

• comœdie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, 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

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.me.di/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: comédies

Noun

comédie f (plural comédies)

1. comedy (genre of theatre, film, television etc.)
2. acting, playacting

Synonyms

• comique

Derived terms

• comédie de situation
• comédie musicale
• comédien
• comédienne
• jouer la comédie

Descendants

• English: comedy
• Greek: κομεντί (komentí)
• → Turkish: komedi

Further reading

• “comédie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.