cometa

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: co‧me‧ta

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. comet

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cometa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/,
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

cometa m (plural cometes)

1. (astronomy) comet (a celestial body, generally with a tail)

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

cometa

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• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

cometa m (plural cometes)

1. comet

From coma +‎ -eta.

cometa f (plural cometes)

1. quotation mark (one of the symbols ', ", «, or »)

• “cometa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cometa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cometa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cometa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. comet

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈme.ta/, /koˈmɛ.ta/^[1]

• Audio::

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• Rhymes: -eta, -ɛta
• Hyphenation: co‧mé‧ta, co‧mè‧ta

cometa f (plural comete)

1. comet

• cometa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• cometa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• cometa in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• cometa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• cometa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈmeː.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈme.ta/,

comēta m (genitive comētae); first declension

1. Alternative form of comētēs
   • 1666, Theatri Cometici Exitus De Significatione Cometarum, page 2:

     Rem mihi pergratam & publico per utilem, Vir Humanissime, fecisti, quod occasione operis mei & sententiae de Significatione Cometarum multa, eaque gravia, dubia moveris.

     Most kind man, you have done me a very pleasing service and the public a very useful service, because you have removed many, and serious, problems on the occasion of my work and opinion on the Significance of Comets.

   • 1833, Supplement to Dr. Bradley's Miscellaneous Works: with an Account of Harriot's Astronomical Papers, page 54:

     Docet philosophia Newtoniana cometas equidem ac planetas attractionis vi, quae in ratione duplicata distantiarum reciproca a sole est, in orbibus ellipticis circa solem in communi foco positum revolvi.

     Newtonian physics teaches that comets, just like planets, circle in elliptical orbits around the sun as a common focus, by the force of attraction which is proportional to the inverse squared distance from the sun.

First-declension noun.

• Rhymes: (most dialects) -etɐ, (Southern Brazil) -eta
• Hyphenation: co‧mê‧ta

Learned borrowing from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. (astronomy) comet (celestial body with a “tail” of matter)

• cometário
• cometologia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cometa

1. inflection of cometer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “cometa”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “cometa”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “cometa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cometa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “cometa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “cometa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Cometa (comet)

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Cometa (kite)

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• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: co‧me‧ta

Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. (astronomy) comet

• → Cebuano: kometa

cometa f (plural cometas)

1. kite (toy)

   Synonyms: (Cuba, Honduras, Mexico) papalote, (Argentina, Nicaragua) barrilete, (El Salvador) piscucha, papalota, (Peru, Chile, Argentina) volantín, (Dominican Republic) chichigua

2. kite (shape)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cometa

1. inflection of cometer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “cometa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10