cometes

See also: Cometes, cometés, and comètes

Asturian

Noun

cometes

plural of cometa

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈmɛ.təs]
IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koˈmə.təs]
IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koˈme.tes]

Etymology 1

Noun

cometes

plural of cometa (“comet”)

Etymology 2

Noun

cometes

plural of cometa (“quotation mark”)

Latin

Alternative forms

comēta

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired; comet”), from κομᾰ́ω (komắō, “I have long hair”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”), the former from κόμη (kómē, “hair”) which itself was borrowed into Latin as coma.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈmeː.teːs/, [kɔˈmeːt̪eːs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈme.tes/, [koˈmɛːt̪es]

Noun

comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension

a comet, meteor, shooting star
Synonym: stēlla crīnīta
a portent of disaster

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	comētēs	comētae
genitive	comētae	comētārum
dative	comētae	comētīs
accusative	comētēn comētem	comētās
ablative	comētē	comētīs
vocative	comētē	comētae

Descendants

→ Albanian: kometë
→ Aragonese: cometa (learned)
→ Asturian: cometa (learned)
→ Basque: kometa
→ Catalan: cometa (learned)
→ Czech: kometa
→ Finnish: komeetta
→ Old French: comete (learned)
- French: comète
  - → Romanian: cometă
  - → Persian: کومت (komet)
- Norman: conmète
- → Danish: komet
- → Middle Dutch: comete
  - Dutch: komeet
    - Afrikaans: komeet
    - → Indonesian: komet
    - → Papiamentu: komeet
- → Middle English: comete
  - English: comet
    - → Malay: komet
    - → Urdu: کومٹ (komeṭ)
    - → Welsh: comed
- → Irish: cóiméad
- → Norwegian Bokmål: komet
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: komet
- → Swedish: komet
→ Galician: cometa (learned)
→ Middle High German: comete
- German: Komet
  - → Estonian: komeet
  - → Slovene: komet
- Luxembourgish: Koméit
- Yiddish: קאָמעט (komet)
→ Interlingua: cometa
→ Italian: cometa (learned)
→ Latvian: komēta
→ Lithuanian: kometa
→ Maltese: kometa
→ Polish: kometa
→ Portuguese: cometa (learned)
→ Slovak: kométa
→ Spanish: cometa (learned)
→ Translingual: Cometes

References

“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

Verb

cometes

second-person singular present indicative of cometer

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

cometes

second-person singular present indicative of cometer