An archaic or medieval Latin term for comedy or a comic play.
From Latin comoedia, from Greek komoidia. Combines komos (revel, celebration) and ode (song). Used throughout medieval Europe for comic dramatic works.
Dante titled his great medieval poem the Comoedia (later called the Divine Comedy by translators)—he chose the word because his work was written in the vernacular (common language) rather than high Latin, which he thought fit for comedy rather than epic!
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