comédie
French
noun
Definitions
- comedy genre of theatre, film, television etc.
- acting, playacting
Etymology
Derived from Old French comedie derived from Latin cōmoedia derived from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (comedy).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κωμῳδία
Gloss
comedy
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- komedia Finnish
- comoedia Latin
- cōmoedia Latin
- Komödie German
- commedia Italian
- komedie Dutch, Flemish
- комедия Russian
- comedia Spanish, Castilian
- κωμῳδία Ancient Greek
- κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ Ancient Greek
- komedie Czech
- comedie Old French
- comèdia Catalan, Valencian
- kómedía Icelandic
- comedia Galician
- κομεντί Greek (modern)
- komēdija Latvian
- komedi Turkish
- comedia Occitan