See also: Cometes, cometés, and comètes

Asturian edit

Noun edit

cometes

  1. plural of cometa

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cometes

  1. plural of cometa

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, long-haired; comet), from κομᾰ́ω (komáō, let the hair grow long) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension

  1. A comet, meteor, shooting star.
  2. A portent of disaster.

Declension edit

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative comētēs comētae
Genitive comētae comētārum
Dative comētae comētīs
Accusative comētēn
comētem
comētās
Ablative comētē comētīs
Vocative comētē comētae

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References edit

  • cŏmētes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cometes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cŏmētēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • cometes”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

cometes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /koˈmetes/ [koˈme.t̪es]
  • Rhymes: -etes
  • Syllabification: co‧me‧tes

Verb edit

cometes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer