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

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔː.mɔːi̯.dí.aː/ → /ko.moˈði.a/ → /ko.moˈði.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔː.mɔːi̯.dí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.moˈdi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.moˈði.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.moˈði.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.moˈði.a/

Noun

κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ • (kōmōidíā) f (genitive κωμῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. comedy
2. play

Declension

First declension of ἡ κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κωμῳδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κωμῳδιογράφος (kōmōidiográphos)

Descendants

• Greek: κωμωδία (komodía)
• Latin: cōmoedia
  • French: comédie
    • English: comedy
    • Greek: κομεντί (komentí)
  • Russian: коме́дия (komédija)

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^[1], 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.