cometes

See also: Cometes, cometés, and comètes

Asturian

Noun

cometes

1. plural of cometa

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

cometes

1. plural of cometa (“comet”)

Etymology 2

Noun

cometes

1. 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): [kɔˈmeː.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈmɛː.tes]

Noun

comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension

1. a comet, meteor, shooting star

   Synonym: stēlla crīnīta

2. 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

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

Portuguese

Verb

cometes

1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

cometes

1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer