κωμῳδία

See also: κωμωδία

Ancient Greek

From κῶμος (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) or ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ἀείδω (aeídō, “I sing”).

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

First declension of ἡ κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κωμῳδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ hē kōmōidĭ́ā	τὼ κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ kōmōidĭ́ā	αἱ κωμῳδῐ́αι hai kōmōidĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς κωμῳδῐ́ᾱς tês kōmōidĭ́ās	τοῖν κωμῳδῐ́αιν toîn kōmōidĭ́ain	τῶν κωμῳδῐῶν tôn kōmōidĭôn
Dative	τῇ κωμῳδῐ́ᾳ tēî kōmōidĭ́āi	τοῖν κωμῳδῐ́αιν toîn kōmōidĭ́ain	ταῖς κωμῳδῐ́αις taîs kōmōidĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν κωμῳδῐ́ᾱν tḕn kōmōidĭ́ān	τὼ κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ kōmōidĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς κωμῳδῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kōmōidĭ́ās
Vocative	κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ kōmōidĭ́ā	κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ kōmōidĭ́ā	κωμῳδῐ́αι kōmōidĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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

“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.