comoedia

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

1. A comedy (play)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōmoedia	cōmoediae
genitive	cōmoediae	cōmoediārum
dative	cōmoediae	cōmoediīs
accusative	cōmoediam	cōmoediās
ablative	cōmoediā	cōmoediīs
vocative	cōmoedia	cōmoediae

Related terms

• cōmoedus

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”)
  • → Japanese: コメディ (komedi)
  • → Korean: 코미디 (komidi)
  • → Tamil: காமெடி (kāmeṭi)
• 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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^[2], 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