LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininefirst declension

cōmoedia

cōmoedia f (genitive cōmoediae)
Classical[koːˈmoe̯.di.a]Ecclesiastical[koˈmɛː.di.a]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. a comedy (play)

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

fābula laeta quae rīsum movet; in theātrō agitur.
cōmoedia -ae f — in Mille Verba, ch. Lūdī et Ōtium

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativecōmoediacōmoediae
genitivecōmoediaecōmoediārum
dativecōmoediaecōmoediīs
accusativecōmoediamcōmoediās
ablativecōmoediācōmoediīs
vocativecōmoediacōmoediae

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
a writer of tragedy, comedy.

cōmoedĭa, ae, f. (
I. gen. comoediai, Plaut. Poen. prol. 51), = κωμὡδία, a comedy (cf. Varr. L. L. 9, § 99 Müll.; Paul. ex Fest. p. 39, 6 ib.), Plaut. Am. prol. 60; Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; Quint. 6, 2, 20; 10, 1, 65; Hor. A. P. 281 al.: Plaut. As. prol. 13: facere, Ter. And. prol. 26: agere, id. Heaut. prol. 4: legere, Plin. Ep. 6, 21, 2: spectare, Ter. And. prol, 27: exigere, to hiss from the stage, id. ib.; cf. id. Hec. alt. prol. 4 and 7.—
II. The younger Pliny humorously named a villa, which was on low ground, comoedia, in opp. to one on high ground, qs. lifted up on a buskin, which he called tragoedia, Plin. Ep. 9, 7, 3.

Origins

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ (kōmōidĭ́ā).

Descendants
  • Catalancomèdia
  • Englishcomedy
  • Englishcomedie
  • Englishcomœdie
  • Englishcomœdy
  • Frenchcomédie
  • GermanKomödie
  • Italiancommedia
  • Portuguesecomédia
  • Romaniancomedie

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

AntiquitiesComoediaComoedia (κωμῳδία). 1. Greek. The early stages of the history of comedy are involved in great indistinctness, as they never formed the subject of much…

Quick answers

What does cōmoedia mean in Latin?
cōmoedia, a noun, means “a comedy (play)”.
What is the genitive of cōmoedia?
The genitive singular is cōmoediae. cōmoedia is feminine, first declension.
How do you pronounce cōmoedia?
In classical Latin, [koːˈmoe̯.di.a]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [koˈmɛː.di.a].