comes
English
editEtymology 1
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
editVerb
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- third-person singular simple present indicative of come
- intransitive verb 1998, L. Kip Wheeler, Utopian Literature[1]:
- The term utopia comes from a Greek pun.
- transitive verb (obsolete) 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1[2], act III, scene I:
- See, how this river comes me cranking in...
- intransitive verb
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Latin comes (“a companion”). Doublet of comte, conte, and count.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈkəʊmiːz/, /ˈkəʊmɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editcomes
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “comes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Catalan
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Etymology 2
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Etymology 3
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Galician
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Ladin
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Latin
editEtymology
editFrom com- (“together”) + -es (“-faring”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈko.mes/, [ˈkɔmɛs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.mes/, [ˈkɔːmes]
Noun
editcomes m or f (genitive comitis); third declension
- a companion, comrade, partner, associate
- Synonyms: amīcus, necessārius, sodālis, contubernālis
- an attendant, a servant
- (Medieval Latin) a count, an earl
- Coordinate term: comitissa
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | comes | comitēs |
Genitive | comitis | comitum |
Dative | comitī | comitibus |
Accusative | comitem | comitēs |
Ablative | comite | comitibus |
Vocative | comes | comitēs |
Derived terms
edit- abbacomes (Mediaeval)
- burgicomes (Mediaeval)
- comes hī̆rsūtus (Mediaeval)
- comes prīncipālis (Mediaeval)
- comes silvester (Mediaeval)
- comitium
- comitō/comitor
Descendants
edit- → Arabic: قَوْمَس (qawmas)
- Aragonese: conte
- Asturian: conde
- → Catalan: còmit (learned)
- → English: comes
- Friulian: cont
- → Koine Greek: κόμης (kómēs)
- Italian: comito, conte
- Old French: cuens, cons (nominative case), conte (oblique case)
- Old Occitan: comte
- Old Galician-Portuguese: conde
- Portuguese: conde
- → Romanian: comite
- Sicilian: conti
- → Proto-Slavic: *kъmetь
- Spanish: conde, cómitre
- Venetian: conte
References
edit- “comes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- comes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “comes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “comes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
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- Hyphenation: co‧mes
Verb
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Spanish
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