comicus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κῶμος (kômos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Hellenic *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós)bor.
Latin cōmicus

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    cōmicus (feminine cōmica, neuter cōmicum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. comic; (relational) comedy

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative cōmicus cōmica cōmicum cōmicī cōmicae cōmica
    genitive cōmicī cōmicae cōmicī cōmicōrum cōmicārum cōmicōrum
    dative cōmicō cōmicae cōmicō cōmicīs
    accusative cōmicum cōmicam cōmicum cōmicōs cōmicās cōmica
    ablative cōmicō cōmicā cōmicō cōmicīs
    vocative cōmice cōmica cōmicum cōmicī cōmicae cōmica

    Noun

    cōmicus m (genitive cōmicī); second declension

    1. comic (actor or poet), comedian

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative cōmicus cōmicī
    genitive cōmicī cōmicōrum
    dative cōmicō cōmicīs
    accusative cōmicum cōmicōs
    ablative cōmicō cōmicīs
    vocative cōmice cōmicī

    References

    • “comicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “comicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "comicus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “comicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • a writer of tragedy, comedy: scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
    • comicus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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