cometa

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: co‧me‧ta

Noun

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. comet

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cometa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/, [koˈme.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

Noun

cometa m (plural cometes)

1. (astronomy) comet (a celestial body, generally with a tail)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈmɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koˈmə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [koˈme.ta]

• Audio (Catalonia)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

Noun

cometa m (plural cometes)

1. comet

Etymology 2

From coma +‎ -eta.

Noun

cometa f (plural cometes)

1. quotation mark (one of the symbols ', ", «, or »)

Further reading

• “cometa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cometa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cometa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cometa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

Noun

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. comet

Italian

Etymology

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈme.ta/, /koˈmɛ.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eta, -ɛta
• Hyphenation: co‧mé‧ta, co‧mè‧ta

Noun

cometa f (plural comete)

1. comet

Further reading

• cometa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• cometa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• cometa in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• cometa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• cometa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈmeː.ta/, [kɔˈmeːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈme.ta/, [koˈmɛːt̪ä]

Noun

comēta m (genitive comētae); first declension

1. Alternative form of comētēs
   • 1666, Theatri Cometici Exitus De Significatione Cometarum, page 2:

     Rem mihi pergratam & publico per utilem, Vir Humanissime, fecisti, quod occasione operis mei & sententiae de Significatione Cometarum multa, eaque gravia, dubia moveris.

     Most kind man, you have done me a very pleasing service and the public a very useful service, because you have removed many, and serious, problems on the occasion of my work and opinion on the Significance of Comets.

   • 1833, Supplement to Dr. Bradley's Miscellaneous Works: with an Account of Harriot's Astronomical Papers, page 54:

     Docet philosophia Newtoniana cometas equidem ac planetas attractionis vi, quae in ratione duplicata distantiarum reciproca a sole est, in orbibus ellipticis circa solem in communi foco positum revolvi.

     Newtonian physics teaches that comets, just like planets, circle in elliptical orbits around the sun as a common focus, by the force of attraction which is proportional to the inverse squared distance from the sun.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	comēta	comētae
Genitive	comētae	comētārum
Dative	comētae	comētīs
Accusative	comētam	comētās
Ablative	comētā	comētīs
Vocative	comēta	comētae

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈme.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈme.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈme.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈme.tɐ/

• Rhymes: (most dialects) -etɐ, (Southern Brazil) -eta
• Hyphenation: co‧mê‧ta

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

Noun

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. (astronomy) comet (celestial body with a “tail” of matter)

Related terms

• cometário
• cometologia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cometa

1. inflection of cometer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cometa” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “cometa” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “cometa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cometa” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “cometa” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “cometa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪a]

• Audio (Cometa):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: co‧me‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

Noun

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. (astronomy) comet

Derived terms

• cometa Halley

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: kometa

Noun

cometa f (plural cometas)

1. kite

   Synonyms: (Cuba, Honduras, Mexico) papalote, (Argentina, Nicaragua) barrilete, (El Salvador) piscucha, papalota, (Peru, Chile, Argentina) volantín, (Dominican Republic) chichigua

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cometa

1. inflection of cometer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cometa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014