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English

Alternative forms

Noun

com (plural coms)

  1. Abbreviation of committee.
    Synonyms: cmte, comm
  2. Abbreviation of communication.
    Synonym: comm
  3. Abbreviation of command.
    Synonym: cmd
  4. Abbreviation of comedy.
  5. Abbreviation of company.

Derived terms

Adjective

com

  1. (Internet) Abbreviation of commercial; as in .com (the most known Internet top-level domain).
  2. Abbreviation of common.
    l. com. car. a.left common carotid artery

Derived terms

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *quomō, from classical Latin quōmodō. Cognate with Spanish como. See also French comme and Italian come.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adverb

com

  1. (interrogative) how
  2. like
  3. (in comparisons, tan ... com) as ... as
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Gaulish *kumbos (curved). Related to *kumbā (valley).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

com m (plural coms)

  1. trough, manger
    Synonym: obi
  2. (geography) a steep-sided glacial valley with a level floor
    Synonym: vall d'obi
Related terms

Further reading

Chinese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly from clipping of English compromise.

Pronunciation

Verb

com

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to reach consensus; to agree on common terms; to discuss
    • 2014, 嶺南人, number 115:
      傾/com庄:商討籌組一支侯選內閣。
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2017, 嶄越報, number 24:
      com莊、nom莊,去到promotion period,經過polling day,再過埋AGM,正式上莊,到依家都差唔多一年,經歷咗好多唔同嘅事 []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Highland Popoluca

Noun

com

  1. pitchfork

Further reading

  • Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 14

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

com m (genitive singular coim or coma, nominative plural comanna)

  1. Ulster form of coim (waist)

Declension

As a first-declension noun:

As a third-declension noun:

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
com chom gcom
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 24

Italian

Adverb

com (apocopated)

  1. (obsolete) Apocopic form of come

Conjunction

com (apocopated)

  1. (obsolete) Apocopic form of come

Anagrams

Latin

Preposition

com

  1. Old Latin form of cum

References

  • com in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

com

  1. first-person singular present of kśěś

Old English

Pronunciation

Verb

cōm

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative of cuman

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *quomo, from classical Latin quomōdo. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French con, cum, etc.

Conjunction

com

  1. like; as

Adverb

com

  1. how (in what fashion)

References

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • c (abbreviation)
  • cum (eye dialect)
  • (obsolete, abbreviation)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese con, from Latin cum (with), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (next to, at, with, along). Compare Fala and Galician con and Spanish con.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation: com

Preposition

com

  1. with; against
    Synonym: contra
    Antonym: a favor de
    Lutamos com os nossos inimigos.
    We fight our enemies.
  2. with; alongside; together with (in the company of)
    Synonyms: junto de, junto com, ao lado de
    Lutamos com os nossos amigos.
    We fight alongside our friends.
  3. with (as a part or accessory of)
    Antonym: sem
    Compramos uma casa com uma garagem e com dois andares.
    We bought a house with a garage and with two storeys.
  4. with (in support of)
    Synonym: a favor de
    Antonym: contra
    Quero saber se meus amigos estão comigo.
    I want to know whether my friend are with me.
  5. with; using (by means of)
    Synonyms: a, usando
    Antonym: sem
    Escrevi o artigo com um lápis.
    I wrote the article with a pencil.
  6. with (as a consequence of)
    Synonyms: por causa de, devido a
    Com a falência da fábrica, ficamos desempregados.
    With the bankruptcy of the factory, we ended up unemployed.
  7. with; having
    Synonym: tendo
    Antonym: sem
    Estou com a pior dor de cabeça que o mundo já viu.
    I have the worst headache the world has ever seen.

Usage notes

The following com + prepositional pronoun phrases have mandatory contractions:

The following are mandatory except when the phrase is qualified by an adjective phrase, such as mesmos or todos:

Com + article contraction are colloquial, but are common in speech:

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:com.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: ku
  • Kabuverdianu: ku
  • Macanese: co
  • Papiamentu: ku, cu

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish comm. Cognate with Irish coim.

Pronunciation

Noun

com m (genitive singular cuim, plural cuim)

  1. bosom, breast, chest
  2. trunk (body)
  3. stomach

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
com chom
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 coim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Faclair.com

Wari'

Pronunciation

  • (Oro Naoʼ, Oro Mon) IPA(key): /kom/

Noun

com n

  1. water

References

  • Everett, Daniel; Kern, Barbara (1997) Wari': the Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil, London: Routledge.
  • Sousa, Maria de Fátima Lima de (2009) Dicionário da Língua Wari’ dialeto Oro Mon – Português [Dictionary of the Wari' Language, Oro Mon Dialect]‎ (in Portuguese), Dissertation, Guajará-Mirim: Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia-UNIR, page 74.

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Persian جام (jâm).

Noun

com

  1. glass