κωμῳδία
See also: κωμωδία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κῶμος (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) or ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ἀείδω (aeídō, “I sing”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɔː.mɔːi̯.dí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ko.moˈdi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ko.moˈði.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ko.moˈði.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ko.moˈði.a/
Noun
κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ • (kōmōidíā) f (genitive κωμῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- comedy
- play
Declension
First declension of ἡ κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κωμῳδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ hē kōmōidíā | τὼ κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ kōmōidíā | αἱ κωμῳδῐ́αι hai kōmōidíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κωμῳδῐ́ᾱς tês kōmōidíās | τοῖν κωμῳδῐ́αιν toîn kōmōidíain | τῶν κωμῳδῐῶν tôn kōmōidiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κωμῳδῐ́ᾳ têi kōmōidíāi | τοῖν κωμῳδῐ́αιν toîn kōmōidíain | ταῖς κωμῳδῐ́αις taîs kōmōidíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κωμῳδῐ́ᾱν tḕn kōmōidíān | τὼ κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ kōmōidíā | τᾱ̀ς κωμῳδῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kōmōidíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ kōmōidíā | κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ kōmōidíā | κωμῳδῐ́αι kōmōidíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κωμῳδιογράφος (kōmōidiográphos)
Descendants
- Greek: κωμωδία (komodía)
- Latin: cōmoedia
- French: comédie
- English: comedy
- Greek: κομεντί (komentí)
- Russian: коме́дия (komédija)
- French: comédie
References
- “κωμῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κωμῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κωμῳδία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- burlesque idem, page 105.
- caricature idem, page 114.
- comedy idem, page 145.
- farce idem, page 307.
- parody idem, page 593.
- traversty idem, page 890.