κομήτης

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κομάω (komáō, to have long hair) +‎ -της (-tēs).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

κομήτης (komḗtēsm; first declension

  1. wearing long hair, long-haired
  2. (figurative) feathered (of an arrow); grassy (of a meadow)
  3. (nominalized, astronomy) comet

Declension

Occurs only in the masculine

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόμη (> DER > κομήτης)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 743-4

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