Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /komoðía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /komoðía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /komoðía/

Noun

κωμῳδίᾱ • ‎(kōmōidíā) f ‎(genitive κωμῳδίας); first declension

1. comedy
2. play

Inflection

Descendants

• English: comedy
• Greek: κωμωδία ‎(komodía)
• Latin: cōmoedia
• Russian: комедия f ‎(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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • burlesque idem, page 105.
  • caricature idem, page 114.
  • comedy idem, page 145.
  • farce idem, page 306.
  • parody idem, page 593.
  • traversty idem, page 890.