comédie

== French == === Alternative forms === comœdie (obsolete) === Etymology === From Old French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía), from κῶμος (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) or ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ἀείδω (aeídō, “to sing”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔ.me.di/ Rhymes: -i Homophone: comédies === Noun === comédie f (countable and uncountable, plural comédies) (theater, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome) comedy Coordinate terms: tragédie, tragicomédie comedy (genre of theatre, film, television etc.) comédie de situation ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) comédie musicale ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) acting, playacting jouer la comédie ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) Arrête ta comédie ! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== comique ==== Descendants ==== → Greek: κομεντί (komentí) → Persian: کمدی (komedi) → Romanian: comedie → Turkish: komedi === Further reading === “comédie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012