comes
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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comes
- 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...
- intransitive verb
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Latin comes (“a companion”). Doublet of count.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
comes m or f (genitive comitis); third declension
- a companion, comrade, partner
- Synonyms: amīcus, necessārius, sodālis
- an attendant, a servant
- (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
- abbacomes (Mediaeval)
- burgicomes (Mediaeval)
- comes prīncipālis (Mediaeval)
- comitium
- comitō/comitor
DescendantsEdit
- → 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 Portuguese: conde
- Portuguese: conde
- → Romanian: comite
- Sicilian: conti
- → Proto-Slavic: *kъmetь
- Spanish: conde, cómitre
- Venetian: conte
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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
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- Hyphenation: co‧mes
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