com
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
com (plural coms)
- Abbreviation of committee.
- Abbreviation of communication.
- Synonym: comm
- Abbreviation of command.
- Synonym: cmd
Derived termsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
com
- (Internet) Abbreviation of commercial; as in .com (the most known Internet top-level domain).
- Abbreviation of common.
- l. com. car. a. ― left common carotid artery
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Vulgar Latin *quomo, from classical Latin quōmodo. Cognate with Spanish como. See also French comme and Italian come.
Alternative formsEdit
- còm (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
com
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
com m (plural coms)
- (2016 spelling reform) Standard spelling of cóm (“trough”).
Further readingEdit
- “com” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “com”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “com” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
ChineseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- 襟 (kam1)
EtymologyEdit
Possibly from clipping of English compromise.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
com
Derived termsEdit
Highland PopolucaEdit
NounEdit
com
Further readingEdit
- Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 14
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
com m (genitive singular coim or coma, nominative plural comanna)
DeclensionEdit
As a first-declension noun:
As a third-declension noun:
MutationEdit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| com | chom | gcom |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 24
LatinEdit
PrepositionEdit
com
ReferencesEdit
- com in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Lower SorbianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
com
Old EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
cōm
Old OccitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *quomo, from classical Latin quomōdo. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French con, cum, etc.
ConjunctionEdit
com
AdverbEdit
com
- how (in what fashion)
- 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, E mainh genh se volv e's vira
- No sai com me contenha
- I don't know how to act
- No sai com me contenha
- 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, E mainh genh se volv e's vira
ReferencesEdit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “quomodo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1542
PortugueseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”). Compare Fala and Galician con and Spanish con.
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -õ
- Hyphenation: com
PrepositionEdit
com
- with; against
- Synonym: contra
- Antonym: a favor de
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 282:
- Tenho coisas mais importantes a discutir com você hoje à noite.
- I have more important things to discuss with you tonight.
- Lutamos com os nossos inimigos.
- We fight [against] our enemies.
- with; alongside; together with (in the company of)
- Synonyms: junto de, junto com, ao lado de
- Lutamos com os nossos amigos.
- We fight alongside our friends.
- with (as a part or accessory of)
- Antonym: sem
- Compramos uma casa com uma garagem e com dois andares.
- We bought a house with a garage and with two storeys.
- with (in support of)
- Synonym: a favor de
- Antonym: contra
- Quero saber se meus amigos estão comigo.
- I want to know whether my friend are with me.
- with; using (by means of)
- with (as a consequence of)
- Synonyms: por causa de, devido a
- Com a falência da fábrica, ficamos desempregados.
- With the bankruptcy of the factory, we ended up unemployed.
- with; having
Usage notesEdit
The following com + prepositional pronoun phrases have mandatory contractions:
The following are mandatory except when the phrase is qualified by an adjective phrase, such as mesmos or todos:
Com + article contraction are colloquial, but are common in speech:
- com + o → co
- com + os → cos
- com + a → ca
- com + as → cas
- com + um → cum
- com + uns → cuns
- com + uma → cuma
- com + umas → cumas
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:com.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
com m (genitive singular cuim, plural cuim)
Derived termsEdit
MutationEdit
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| com | chom |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
Wari'Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
com n
ReferencesEdit
- Everett, Daniel; Kern, Barbara (1997) Wari': the Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil, London: Routledge.
- Sousa, Maria de Fátima Lima de (2009) Dicionário da Língua Wari’ dialeto Oro Mon – Português [Dictionary of the Wari' Language, Oro Mon Dialect][4] (in Portuguese), Dissertation, Guajará-Mirim: Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia-UNIR, page 74.
ZazakiEdit
EtymologyEdit
Related to Persian جام (jâm).
NounEdit
com