English → Latin
“comedy” in Latin
The English word comedy itself goes back to Latin cōmoedia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
comedy
comoedia: fabula Atellana (sort of farce amongst the Romans): relating or belonging to comedy, comicus (κωμικός, opposed to tragicus): in a manner belonging to comedy, cornice: Comic character (i. e., in comedy), partes ridendae: [Vid :, also, PLAY]: To act a comedy; Vid :, To ACT.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for comedy?
- The usual Latin words for “comedy” are cōmoedia, cōmicus, cornīx. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.