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Asturian
Noun
cometes
- plural of cometa
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
cometes
- plural of cometa (“comet”)
Etymology 2
Noun
cometes
- plural of cometa (“quotation mark”)
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired; comet”), from κομᾰ́ω (komắō, “I have long hair”) + -της (-tēs, “-er”), the former from κόμη (kómē, “hair”) which itself was borrowed into Latin as coma.
Pronunciation
Noun
comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension
- a comet, meteor, shooting star
- Synonym: stēlla crīnīta
- a portent of disaster
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).
Descendants
References
- “cŏmētes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cometes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cŏmētēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cometes”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
Portuguese
Verb
cometes
- second-person singular present indicative of cometer
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈmetes/
- Rhymes: -etes
- Syllabification: co‧me‧tes
Verb
cometes
- second-person singular present indicative of cometer