Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

κωμῳδός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωμῳδός κωμῳδοῦ

Structure: κωμῳδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: v.  kwmw|di/a

Sense

  1. a comedian
  2. a comic actor
  3. a comic poet

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἶδον, ὦ Σόλων, οὓσ φὴσ τοὺσ τραγῳδοὺσ καὶ κωμῳδούσ, εἴ γε ἐκεῖνοὶ εἰσιν, ὑποδήματα μὲν βαρέα καὶ ὑψηλὰ ὑποδεδεμένοι, χρυσαῖσ δὲ ταινίαισ τὴν ἐσθῆτα πεποικιλμένοι, κράνη δὲ ἐπικείμενοι παγγέλοια κεχηνότα παμμέγεθεσ· (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 23:1)
  • ζηλοτυποῦντεσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ λογίουσ πλούσιοι καὶ πλουσίουσ ἔνδοξοι καὶ δικολόγοι σοφιστάσ, καὶ ναὶ μὰ Δία κωμῳδοὺσ εὐημεροῦντασ ἐν θεάτροισ καὶ ὀρχηστὰσ καὶ θεράποντασ ἐν αὐλαῖσ βασιλέων ἐλεύθεροι καὶ εὐπατρίδαι κατατεθαμβημένοι καὶ μακαρίζοντεσ, οὐ μετρίωσ λυποῦσιν αὑτοὺσ καὶ ταράττουσιν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 13 6:1)
  • κωμῳδοὺσ εὐημεροῦντασ ἐν θεάτροισ καὶ ὀρχηστὰσ καὶ θεράποντασ ἐν αὐλαῖσ βασιλέων ἐλεύθεροι καὶ εὐπατρίδαι κατατεθαμβημένοι καὶ μακαρίζοντεσ, οὐ μετρίωσ λυποῦσιν αὑτοὺσ καὶ ταράττουσιν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 13 19:1)
  • θεᾷ γὰρ αὐτοὺσ ᾗπερ τοὺσ τραγῳδούσ τε καὶ κωμῳδούσ, οὐχ ὅπωσ ποιητὴσ οἰόμαι γένῃ, ἀλλ’ ὅπωσ ἡσθῇσ ἰδών τι ἢ ἀκούσασ· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 3 10:1)
  • εἰσ κιθαρῳδοὺσ ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τραγῳδοὺσ καὶ κωμῳδούσ Ἑλλήνων ἀπέλυε πόλιν ποτέ, δέσποτα Καῖσαρ, εἰσελθὼν ᾆσαι Ναύπλιον Ἡγέλοχοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1851)

Synonyms

  1. a comedian

  2. a comic actor

  3. a comic poet

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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