comédie

See also: comedie

French

Alternative forms

• comœdie (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French comedie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cōmoedia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

Related terms

• comédie musicale
• comédien
• comédienne

Descendants

• English: comedy
• Greek: κομεντί (komentí)

Further reading

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