Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A comedian. · A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a comic book. · A children's magazine.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryPertaining to comedy, as a literary genre. · Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining. · Unintentionally humorous; amusing, ridiculous. · Of or relating to comics or sequential art.
From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).
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