coma

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See also: čoma, čomā, and cơ mà

English

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Pronunciation

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  • Homophone: comber (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma (plural comas)

  1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
Derived terms
Translations
See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

Hubble image of an icy Comet, showing nucleus and coma
In this image the stars near the edge of the field form comae because of the comatic aberration of the wide-angle lens
In each of these trees the branches form a well-defined coma
In this turmeric plant, the tuft of magenta bracts form a coma
Each of these milkweed seeds has a coma of silky hairs at one end

Noun

coma (plural comae)

  1. (astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  2. (optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
  3. (botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
Translations

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) coma

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of comer
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of comer

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma m (plural comes)

  1. coma (deep sleep)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

  1. comma (punctuation mark)
Derived terms

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: co‧ma

Noun

coma n (plural coma's)

  1. coma (state of unconsciousness)

Noun

coma f (plural coma's, diminutive comaatje n)

  1. coma (head of a comet)

French

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. coma (state of unconsciousness)
    • 1825, Etienne-Marin Bailly, Traité anatomico-pathologique des fièvres intermittentes simples et pernicieuses
      Le coma suivi de symptômes convulsifs, est moins dangereux que lorsqu'il leur succède, à moins que dans ce dernier cas il soit nerveux, et que le malade se réveille facilement, on exécute, sinon des mouvements volontaires, au moins des mouvements automatiques.

Derived terms

Further reading

Galician

Verb

coma

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of comer
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of comer

Interlingua

Noun

coma (uncountable)

  1. coma

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma m (uncountable)

  1. coma (sleep)

Anagrams

Ladin

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

  1. (Val di Fassa, law) subsection
  2. (Val di Fassa, orthography) comma

Synonyms

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair of the head”), which is of uncertain origin and is sometimes linked to κόμέω (“to care for (in the sense of hair)”).

Pronunciation

Noun

coma f (genitive comae); first declension

  1. The hair of the head.
  2. foliage

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative coma comae
Genitive comae comārum
Dative comae comīs
Accusative comam comās
Ablative comā comīs
Vocative coma comae

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Albanian: komë
  • Aragonese: coma
  • Aromanian: coamã
  • English: coma

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References

  • “coma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “coma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • coma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “coma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “coma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkomɐ/
  • Hyphenation: co‧ma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. coma, state of unconsciousness

Etymology 2

From Latin coma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. abundant hair of the head
  2. mane
  3. (astronomy) comet coma
Synonyms

See also

Etymology 3

Verb

coma

  1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cummae, from Proto-Indo-European *kom-smiyo-, from *kom (“beside, with, by”) + *sem- (“one, as one”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

coma

  1. indifferent, unconcerned
    • Tha e coma.
      He couldn't care less.
    • 'S mi a tha coma dè thachras.
      I don't give a damn what happens.
    • Coma de sin!
      Never mind that! Forget that!
  2. reckless, careless
  3. or expressing dislike or even hate when used with le
    • Is coma leam thu
      I hate you.
    • Is coma leis an rìgh Eòghann agus is coma le Eòghann co-dhiù
      The king doesn't like Eòghann, but Eòghann doesn't care whether the king likes him or not.

Derived terms

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin comma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. comma
  2. (church) misericord
  3. (music) section
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. coma

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin coma[1].

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. (rare) mane
Synonyms

Etymology 4

Verb

coma

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of comer.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of comer.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of comer.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of comer.

References

  1. ^ https://www.scribd.com/doc/157209215/Diccionario-Critico-Etimologico-castellano-C-F-Corominas-Joan-pdf

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English comma.

Pronunciation

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. comma

Synonyms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
coma goma nghoma choma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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