cometes

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See also: Cometes, cometés, and comètes

Asturian[edit]

Noun[edit]

cometes

  1. plural of cometa

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

cometes

  1. plural of cometa (comet)

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

cometes

  1. plural of cometa (quotation mark)

Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, long-haired; comet), from κομᾰ́ω (komáō, let the hair grow long) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension

  1. A comet, meteor, shooting star.
  2. 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]

See also[edit]

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]

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

cometes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

cometes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer