See also: Cometes, cometés, and comètes

Asturian

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Noun

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cometes

  1. plural of cometa

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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cometes

  1. plural of cometa (comet)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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cometes

  1. plural of cometa (quotation mark)

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension

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

Declension

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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

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References

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  • 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

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Verb

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cometes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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cometes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer