com

See also: Appendix:Variations of "com"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Comanche or Spanish comanche.

Symbol

com

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Comanche.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Comanche terms

English

Alternative forms

• com., COM

Pronunciation

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Noun

com (plural coms)

1. Abbreviation of committee.

   Synonyms: cmte, comm

2. Abbreviation of communication.

   Synonym: comm

3. Abbreviation of command.

   Synonym: cmd

4. Abbreviation of comedy.
5. Abbreviation of company.
6. A player in a video game which is controlled by the computer rather than a human.

Derived terms

• com sec
• intercom
• quad com
• rom com
• rom-zom-com
• sim-com
• telecom
• zom-com

Adjective

com

1. (Internet) Abbreviation of commercial; as in .com (the most known Internet top-level domain).
2. Abbreviation of common.

   l. com. car. a. ― left common carotid artery

Derived terms

• dot-com

See also

• com ruou

Anagrams

• CMO, MCO, MOC, OMC, moc

Acehnese

Etymology

From Proto-Chamic *cum. Compare Malay cium, Bahnar chŭm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɔm/

Verb

com

1. to kiss
2. (transitive) to smell

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *quomō, from classical Latin quōmodō. Cognate with Spanish and Portuguese como. See also French comme and Italian come.

Alternative forms

• còm (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔm]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkom]

• Audio:

  (file)

Adverb

com

1. (interrogative) how
2. like
3. (in comparisons, tan ... com) as ... as

Derived terms

• com a
• com a màxim
• com a mínim
• com a molt
• com ara
• com està
• com estàs
• com et dius
• com l'anell al dit
• com que
• com una exhalació
• com va
• tal com

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Gaulish *kumbos (“curved”). Related to *kumbā (“valley”).

Alternative forms

• cóm (pre-2016)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkom]

Noun

com m (plural coms)

1. trough, manger

   Synonym: obi

2. (geography) a steep-sided glacial valley with a level floor

   Synonym: vall d'obi

Related terms

• coma

Further reading

• “com” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cóm” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “com”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “com”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 襟 (kam¹)

Etymology

Possibly from clipping of English compromise.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kam¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kam¹
    • Yale: kām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐm⁵⁵/

Verb

com

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to reach consensus; to agree on common terms; to discuss
   • 2014, “Archived copy”, in 嶺南人‎, number 115, archived from the original on 30 October 2022:

     傾／com庄：商討籌組一支侯選內閣。

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2017, “Archived copy”, in 嶄越報‎, number 24, archived from the original on 30 March 2023:

     由com莊、nom莊，去到promotion period，經過polling day，再過埋AGM，正式上莊，到依家都差唔多一年，經歷咗好多唔同嘅事 […]

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Derived terms

• com莊 / com庄

Highland Popoluca

Noun

com

1. pitchfork

Further reading

• Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999), Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 14