comedy

comedy
\ \ [14] Comedy is of Greek origin. It comes ultimately from Greek kōmosrevelry’.
\ \ This appears to have been combined with ōidóssinger, poet’ (a derivative of aeídeinsing’, source of English ode and odeon) to produce kōmōidós, literally ‘singer in the revels’, hence ‘actor in a light amusing play’. From this was derived kōmōidíā, which came to English via Latin cōmoedia and Old French comedie.
\ \ Cf.ENCOMIUM, ODE

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