comedy

• n.コメディ; 滑稽な; 面白いこと

com, ギリシャ語の komos, 喜び, 仲間, com-, 強調 , 一緒に, -it, 行く, つまり一緒に来る, パーティーをする, から省略された。 -コメディ、語源は頌歌、頌歌と同じ。

comedy

comedy: [14] Comedy is of Greek origin. It comes ultimately from Greek kōmos ‘revelry’. This appears to have been combined with ōidós ‘singer, poet’ (a derivative of aeídein ‘sing’, 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.
=> encomium, ode

comedy (n.)

late 14c., from Old French comedie (14c., "a poem," not in the theatrical sense), from Latin comoedia, from Greek komoidia "a comedy, amusing spectacle," probably from komodios "actor or singer in the revels," from komos "revel, carousal, merry-making, festival," + aoidos "singer, poet," from aeidein "to sing," related to oide (see ode).

The passage on the nature of comedy in the Poetic of Aristotle is unfortunately lost, but if we can trust stray hints on the subject, his definition of comedy (which applied mainly to Menander) ran parallel to that of tragedy, and described the art as a purification of certain affections of our nature, not by terror and pity, but by laughter and ridicule. [Rev. J.P. Mahaffy, "A History of Classical Greek Literature," London, 1895]

The classical sense of the word, then, was "amusing play or performance," which is similar to the modern one, but in the Middle Ages the word came to mean poems and stories generally (albeit ones with happy endings), and the earliest English sense is "narrative poem" (such as Dante's "Commedia"). Generalized sense of "quality of being amusing" dates from 1877.

Comedy aims at entertaining by the fidelity with which it presents life as we know it, farce at raising laughter by the outrageous absurdity of the situation or characters exhibited, & burlesque at tickling the fancy of the audience by caricaturing plays or actors with whose style it is familiar. [Fowler]

1. Paul is a thoroughly likeable man with an unerring sense of comedy .

ポールはとても人に好かれていて、冗談を言うのに節度がある。

2.Actor Dom Deluise talks about his career in comedy .

俳優のドム?ダルシーが自身のコメディ人生について語った。

3.This comedy of contemporary manners is told with compassion and acid humour.

この現代風コメディは、悲哀の情と辛辣なユーモアを織り込んでいる。

4.This year numerous bands are playing，as well as comedy acts.

今年はそれらのコントのほか、多くのバンドがステージに登場した。

5.The Gaiety is reviving John B.Kean 's comedy "The Man from Clare ".

ガイ?シアターでは、ジョン?B.キーンのコメディ『クレアから来た人』を再演している。