See also: Comes, comés, and comès

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /kʌmz/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌmz

VerbEdit

comes

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of come

Etymology 2Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkəʊmiːz/, /ˈkəʊmɪs/
  • (file)

NounEdit

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)

AnagramsEdit

AsturianEdit

VerbEdit

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

comes

  1. plural of coma

GalicianEdit

VerbEdit

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

LadinEdit

NounEdit

comes

  1. plural of coma

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From com- + the stem of . 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.[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

DeclensionEdit

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 termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “comes”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 129
  • 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

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

 

  • Hyphenation: co‧mes

VerbEdit

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

VerbEdit

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer