comoedia
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía), from κῶμος (kômos, “revel, caurousing”) + either ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) or ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ἀείδω (aeídō, “I sing”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /koːˈmoe̯.di.a/, [koːˈmoe̯d̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈme.di.a/, [koˈmɛːd̪iä]
Noun
cōmoedia f (genitive cōmoediae); first declension
- A comedy (play)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōmoedia | cōmoediae |
Genitive | cōmoediae | cōmoediārum |
Dative | cōmoediae | cōmoediīs |
Accusative | cōmoediam | cōmoediās |
Ablative | cōmoediā | cōmoediīs |
Vocative | cōmoedia | cōmoediae |
Related terms
Descendants
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
- 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 (2016 July 16 (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