comment

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Late Latin commentum, from comminisci (“to invent”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒmɛnt/, X-SAMPA: /"kQmEnt/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkɑmɛnt/, X-SAMPA: /"kAmEnt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

comment (plural comments)

1. A spoken remark.

   I have no comment on that.

2. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.

Translations

spoken remark

• Bulgarian: коментар (bg) (komentar), бележка (bg) (beležka) f
• Catalan: comentari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評論 (cmn), 评论 (cmn) (pínglùn)

• Czech: komentář (cs) m
• Danish: kommentar (da) c
• Dutch: commentaar (nl)
• Finnish: kommentti (fi), huomautus (fi), välihuomautus (fi)
• French: commentaire (fr) m
• German: Kommentar (de) m
• Greek: σχόλιο (el) (schólio) n
• Hungarian: megjegyzés (hu)
• Icelandic: athugasemd (is) f
• Italian: commento (it) m

• Japanese: コメント (ja) (komento), 論評 (ja) (ろんぴょう, ronpyō)
• Low German: Kommentar (nds) n
• Maori: huatau (mi)
• Norwegian: kommentar (no) m
• Persian: نظر (fa) (nazar)
• Polish: komentarz (pl) m
• Russian: комментарий (ru) (kommentárij) m, замечание (ru) (zamečánije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: abairt (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опаска (sh) (opaska), коментар (sh) (komentar) m

  Roman: opaska (sh) f, komentar (sh) m

• Spanish: comentario (es) m
• Swedish: kommentar (sv) c
• Turkish: yorum (tr)

programming: remark not affecting behavior

• Bulgarian: коментар (bg) (komentar)
• Catalan: comentari (ca) m
• Czech: komentář (cs) m
• Dutch: commentaar (nl)
• Finnish: kommentti (fi)
• German: Kommentar (de) m
• Greek: σχόλιο (el) (schólio) n
• Hungarian: megjegyzés (hu)
• Icelandic: athugasemd (is) f

• Italian: commento (it) m
• Persian: کامنت (fa) (kâment)
• Polish: komentarz (pl) m
• Russian: комментарий (ru) (kommentárij) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коментар (sh) (komentar) m

  Roman: komentar (sh) m

• Spanish: comentario (es) m
• Turkish: açıklama (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: تعليق (ar)
• French: commentaire (fr) m
• Hebrew: הערה (he'ara) f (1)
• Hindi: कहना (hi) m (kehna)

• Ido: komento
• Portuguese: comentário m
• Romanian: comentariu n
• Swedish: kommentar (sv) c
• Telugu: వ్యాఖ్య (te) (vyaakhya)
• Urdu: کہنا (ur) m (kehna)

See also

• pragma

Verb

comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)

1. (transitive) To remark.
   • 2003 7/05, Pierre Salinger, ABC News, “Analysis: Top film choices”, NPR_Saturday:

     I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game

   • 2009 Winter, John M. Kang, “Manliness and the Constitution”, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 32, number 1, page 261: 

     As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."

2. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

4. (transitive, software) To insert comments into (source code).

   I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.

Derived terms

programming: insert comments

uncomment comment out

Translations

to remark

• Bulgarian: коментирам (bg) (komentiram)
• Catalan: comentar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評論 (cmn), 评论 (cmn) (pínglùn)

• Czech: komentovat (cs)
• Danish: kommentere (da)
• Dutch: becommentariëren (nl)
• Finnish: kommentoida (fi), huomauttaa (fi)
• French: commenter (fr)
• German: kommentieren (de)

• Greek: σχολιάζω (el) (scholiázo)
• Japanese: 論評する (ja) (ろんぴょうする, ronpyō-suru)
• Norwegian: kommentere (no)
• Polish: komentować (pl)
• Portuguese: comentar (pt)
• Russian: комментировать (ru) (kommentírovat') impf., прокомментировать (ru) (prokommentírovat') pf.
• Spanish: comentar (es)
• Swedish: kommentera (sv)

programming: to insert comments

• Catalan: comentar (ca)
• Czech: komentovat (cs)
• Dutch: becommentariëren (nl)
• Finnish: kommentoida (fi)
• German: Kommentare einfügen (de)

• Greek: ‎βάζω σε σχόλια (vázo se schólia) 
• Polish: komentować, zakomentować
• Russian: комментировать (ru) (kommentírovat') impf., закомментировать (ru) (zakommentírovat') pf.

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: علّق ب (ar)
• Danish: kommentar (da)
• Estonian: mainima (et)
• Hebrew: להעיר (le'ha'yr) (1)

• Portuguese: comentar (pt)
• Spanish: comentar (es)
• Swedish: kommentera

External links

• comment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• comment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• comment at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔ.mɑ̃/, X-SAMPA: /kO.mA~/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Etymology

From comme + -ment.

Adverb

comment

1. how

Derived terms

• comment allez-vous
• comment vas-tu
• comment ça va

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Middle French

Adverb

comment

1. how (in a given manner)
   • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:

     Comment Epistemon qui avoit la teste tranchée, fut guery habillement par Panurge.

     How Epistemon who had his head cut off was adroitly cured by Panurge

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2. (interrogative) how (in what manner)

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Old French

Adverb

comment

1. Alternative form of comant.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English comment.

Noun

comment m (plural comments)

1. (Internet slang) comment, remark

Synonyms

• comentário