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Comedy
A light, amusing drama with a happy ending.
The Greek roots
κῶμος
kômos
revel
ᾠδή
ōidḗ
song
Literally: “revel-song”
The story of the word
Comedy grew out of the boisterous 'revel-song' of festival processions honouring Dionysus.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The new comedy had the whole audience laughing.