comédie

See also: comedie

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/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: comédies

Noun

comédie f (countable and uncountable, plural comédies)

1. (theater, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome) comedy

   Coordinate terms: tragédie, tragicomédie

2. 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)

3. 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

• comédien
• comédienne

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.