comique

comic

“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.

Related: comiquement, héroï-comique, opéra comique, tragi-comique

From Latin cōmicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós).

comedy; clown (person who acts silly)

From Latin cōmicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós).