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Headword: *kwmw|di/ai
Adler number: kappa,2268
Translated headword: comedies
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] insults, ridicule, jokes.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] kwmw|do/s ["singer in the kw=mos"], [meaning] comedy.[2]
Greek Original:
*kwmw|di/ai: u(/breis, diasurmoi/, e)mpai/gmata. kai\ *kwmw|do/s, h( kwmw|di/a.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar entry elsewhere; see the references at Photius, Lexicon kappa1316 Theodoridis. The headword, nominative plural of this noun, is presumably quoted from somewhere.
[2] The plural kwmw|doi/ can mean "performances of comedy" (LSJ s.v.).
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; meter and music
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 February 2009@01:24:08.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; more keywords; cosmetics) on 23 February 2009@03:14:35.
David Whitehead on 15 March 2013@06:44:30.
David Whitehead on 2 May 2016@06:50:25.

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