comicus Latin · revision 9317

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Plautus|origins=grc κωμικός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkoː.mɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔː.mi.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōmicus''' (feminine cōmica, neuter cōmicum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κωμικός|tr=kōmikós|t=of comedy]], from ⟨kōmōidía⟩ “comedy”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of comedy and of a comic actor.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it meant of comedy, comic, and typical of comedy, as in Plautus, and Cicero has ''poēta cōmicus'' and ''adulēscēns cōmicus'' “a young man out of a comedy”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) As a noun it meant a comic actor, as in Plautus, and a writer of comedies, as in Varro.^(OLD 2012)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for comic and as a noun for a comedian or comic playwright, especially Terence.^(DMLBS) It gave [[en|comic]] in the late 14th century, “of comedy as distinct from tragedy”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of comic poets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''comic'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of comedy, [[m|en|comic]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A comic actor.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A comic poet.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōmoedia]]

+ * [[cōmoedus]]

+ * [[en|comic]]

+ * [[en|comedy]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}