comis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Proto-Indo-European *smey-der.

Proto-Italic *smis?

Proto-Italic *komsmis

Archaic Latin cosmis

Latin cōmis

From Archaic Latin cosmis, from Proto-Italic *komsmis, from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to smile”) (whence mīrus).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoː.mɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.mis]

Adjective

cōmis (neuter cōme, comparative cōmior, superlative cōmissimus, adverb cōmiter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. courteous, kind, obliging, affable, gracious, polite
2. elegant, cultured

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	cōmis	cōme		cōmēs	cōmia
genitive	cōmis			cōmium
dative	cōmī			cōmibus
accusative	cōmem	cōme		cōmīs cōmēs	cōmia
ablative	cōmī			cōmibus
vocative	cōmis	cōme		cōmēs	cōmia

Noun

comis

1. dative/ablative plural of coma

Derived terms

• cōmitās

References

• “comis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “comis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "comis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “comis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 967

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek κόμης (kómis).

Noun

comis m (plural comiși)

1. (historical) equerry

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	comis	comisul	comiși	comișii
genitive-dative	comis	comisului	comiși	comișilor
vocative	comisule		comișilor

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mi/

Noun

comis m

1. clerk