comes

See also: Comes, comés, and comès

English

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʌmz/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmz

Verb

comes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form 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, “Act III, Scene I”, in Henry IV, Part 1‎^[2]:

     See, how this river comes me cranking in...

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin comes (“a companion”). Doublet of count.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊmiːz/, /ˈkəʊmɪs/

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Noun

comes

1. (music) The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

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Asturian

Verb

comes

1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈko.məs/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mes/

Noun

comes

1. plural of coma

Galician

Verb

comes

1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Ladin

Noun

comes

1. plural of coma

Latin

Etymology

From com- + the stem of eō. The expected nominative singular *comĭs was likely replaced by -ĕs on the basis of other t-stem nouns like pĕdĕs (“soldier on foot”) and ĕquĕs (“horseman”), cf. mīlĕs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mes/, [ˈkɔmɛs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mes/, [ˈkɔːmes]

Noun

comes m or f (genitive comitis); third declension

1. a companion, comrade, partner

   Synonyms: amīcus, necessārius, sodālis

2. an attendant, a servant
3. (Medieval Latin) a count, an earl

   Coordinate term: comitissa

Declension

Third-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

• abbacomes (Mediaeval)
• burgicomes (Mediaeval)
• comes prīncipālis (Mediaeval)
• comitium
• comitō/comitor

 

Descendants

• → Arabic: قَوْمَس‎ (qawmas)
• Aragonese: conte
• Asturian: conde
• → Catalan: còmit (learned)
• → English: comes
• Friulian: cont
• → Koine Greek: κόμης (kómēs)
  • Greek: κόμης (kómis)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܩܘܡܝܣ‎ (qwmys), ܩܘܡܣ‎ (qwms)
    • → Old Armenian: կոմս (koms)
      • → Old Georgian: კომსი (ḳomsi)
  • → Old Armenian: կոմէս (komēs)
• Italian: comito, conte
• Old French: cuens, cons (nominative case), conte (oblique case)
  • → English: count
  • → Romanian: conte
  • French: comte
    • → English: comte
  • → Irish: cunta
  • Norman: coumte
  • ⇒ Old French: conestable (see there for further descendants)
• Old Occitan: comte
  • Catalan: comte
  • Occitan: comte
• Old Portuguese: conde
  • Portuguese: conde
• → Romanian: comite
• Sicilian: conti
• → Proto-Slavic: *kъmetь
  • Bulgarian: кмет (kmet)
  • Czech: kmet
  • Macedonian: кмет (kmet)
  • Serbo-Croatian: kmȅt
    • → English: kmet
  • Slovene: kmȅt
• Spanish: conde, cómitre
• Venetian: conte

References

• “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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkõ.mis/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkõ.mis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkõ.miʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mes/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mɨʃ/

• Hyphenation: co‧mes

Verb

comes

1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkomes/ [ˈko.mes]
• Rhymes: -omes
• Syllabification: co‧mes

Verb

comes

1. second-person singular present indicative of comer