Feminine

comédie

Meaning

  1. (Ancient-Rome, countable, feminine, uncountable) comedy
  2. (countable, feminine, uncountable) comedy (genre of theatre, film, television etc.)
  3. (countable, feminine, uncountable) acting, playacting

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɔ.me.di/
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”).

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