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English
Etymology
From French comique.
Noun
comique (plural comiques)
- (dated) A comic actor or singer.
Asturian
Verb
comique
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comicar
French
Etymology
From Latin cōmicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
comique (plural comiques)
- comic
- Synonyms: amusant, drôle, (colloquial) rigolo
1674, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Art poétique:J’aime mieux Arioste et ses fables comiques
Que ces auteurs, toujours froids et mélancoliques,
Qui, dans leur sombre humeur, se croiraient faire affront
Si les Grâces jamais leur déridaient le front.- I would rather have Ariosto and his comic tales than those authors who are always frigid and miserable, who, being temperamentally gloomy, would think it an insult to themselves if the Graces ever unwrinkled their foreheads.
Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
comique m (plural comiques)
- comedy
- Synonym: comédie
- clown (person who acts silly)
- Synonym: bouffon
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