cometes
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cometes
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cometes
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired; comet”), from κομᾰ́ω (komáō, “let the hair grow long”) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈmeː.teːs/, [kɔˈmeːt̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈme.tes/, [koˈmɛːt̪es]
Noun edit
comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension
- A comet, meteor, shooting star.
- 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 |
Descendants edit
Descendants
- → Albanian: kometë
- → Aragonese: cometa (learned)
- → Asturian: cometa (learned)
- → Basque: kometa
- → Catalan: cometa (learned)
- → Czech: kometa
- → Finnish: komeetta
- → Old French: comete (learned)
- → Galician: cometa (learned)
- → Middle High German: comete
- → Interlingua: cometa
- → Italian: cometa (learned)
- → Latvian: komēta
- → Lithuanian: kometa
- → Maltese: kometa
- → Polish: kometa
- → Portuguese: cometa (learned)
- → Slovak: kométa
- → Spanish: cometa (learned)
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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]
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