comes

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See also: Comes, comés, and comès

English

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʌmz/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌmz

Verb

comes

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of come

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin comes (a companion). Doublet of comte, conte, and count.

Pronunciation

Noun

comes

  1. (music) The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma (coma)

Etymology 2

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma (comma)

Etymology 3

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma (combe, cwm, cirque)

Galician

Verb

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Ladin

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma

Latin

Etymology

From com- (together) +‎ -es (-faring).

Pronunciation

Noun

comes m or f (genitive comitis); third declension

  1. a companion, comrade, partner, associate
    Synonyms: amīcus, necessārius, sodālis, contubernālis
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.677-678:
      Comitemne sorōrem / sprēvistī moriēns?”
      “Did you not spurn your sister as a companion in death?”
  2. an attendant, a servant
  3. (Medieval Latin) a count, an earl
    Coordinate term: comitissa

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative comes comitēs
genitive comitis comitum
dative comitī comitibus
accusative comitem comitēs
ablative comite comitibus
vocative comes comitēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • comes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • comes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • comes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • comes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • comes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • comes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: co‧mes

Verb

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkomes/
  • Rhymes: -omes
  • Syllabification: co‧mes

Verb

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer