cometes

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 (komắō, “to 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

  1. (astronomy) a comet, meteor, shooting star
    Synonym: stēlla crīnīta
  2. 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[1]

Portuguese

Verb

cometes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈmetes/ [koˈme.t̪es]
  • Rhymes: -etes
  • Syllabification: co‧me‧tes

Verb

cometes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer