Translation
comic, funny
Word origin
From Greek komikos, belonging to comedy, from komos, the noisy festive procession that comedy grew out of. Exactly the root that gave komedio.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- komikos
- English cognates
- comic, comedy, comedian
Examples
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The film was comic and cheerful.
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He has a comical face.
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She told a funny story about her job.
The false seam. Esperanto does use -ik- in borrowed pairs, where a science and its adjective arrive together: and fizika, and muzika, and logika. So the eye reads kom-ik-a and starts hunting for a root kom-.
There is no such root. Komik- is one Greek borrowing, and the only thing you can remove from is the final -a. The word it is genuinely related to is , rank 2350, which came from the same komos by a different path - and which has a false seam of its own, since there is no -edi- in it either. The two words are family and neither can be taken apart.
Where it sits. is funny in the sense of belonging to comedy: it describes the thing that makes people laugh. , rank 455, is cheerful, describing a mood rather than an effect. a is ridiculous, and it is a judgement, not a compliment: a performance is doing its job, a a one is not. If you mean amusing and want to stay safe, and amuza both work; a does not.
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