cometes

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See also: Cometes, cometés, and comètes

Asturian

Noun

cometes

  1. plural of cometa

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

cometes

  1. plural of cometa (comet)

Etymology 2

Noun

cometes

  1. plural of cometa (quotation mark)

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, long-haired; comet), from κομᾰ́ω (komáō, let the hair grow long) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

Noun

comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension

  1. A comet, meteor, shooting star.
  2. A portent of disaster.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative comētēs comētae
Genitive comētae comētārum
Dative comētae comētīs
Accusative comētēn
comētem
comētās
Ablative comētē comētīs
Vocative comētē comētae

Descendants

See also

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

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈmetes/
  • Rhymes: -etes
  • Syllabification: co‧me‧tes

Verb

cometes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer