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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Plautus|origins=grc κωμῳδία}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [koːˈmoe̯.di.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [koˈmɛː.di.a]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''cōmoedia''' ''f'' (genitive cōmoediae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|grc|κωμῳδία|tr=kōmōidía|t=comedy]], related to [[m|grc|κῶμος|tr=kômos|t=revel]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline) Varro discusses its origin from ⟨κῶμος⟩.^(TLL) Plautus has the old genitive ⟨cōmoediāī⟩, and Varro the spelling ⟨cōmōdia⟩.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of a comedy.^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cicero; he dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a comedy, a play, as in Plautus and Terence's ''cōmoediam facere'' “to write a comedy”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Cicero it meant comedy as a genre, ''vetus cōmoedia'' the Old Attic comedy and ''media cōmoedia'' the Middle comedy.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ British Medieval Latin used it for a comedy, and by confusion with ''comedere'' “to eat” for banquet songs.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''commedia'' and French ''comédie'', and Old French ''comedie'' gave [[en|comedy]] in the late 14th century, “a narrative with a happy ending”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a comedy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses ''cōmoediam facere''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the Old Comedy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''comedy'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # [[m|en|Comedy]] as a genre, ''vetus cōmoedia'', the Old Comedy.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A comedy, a comic play.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[cōmoedicus]]
+ * [[tragicōmoedia]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[tragoedia]]
+ * [[en|comedy]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}