comes

See also: Comes, comés, and comès

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʌmz/

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Verb

comes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of come
   • intransitive verb
     1998, L. Kip Wheeler, Utopian Literature‎^[1]:

     The term utopia comes from a Greek pun.

   • transitive verb (obsolete)
     1597, William Shakespeare, “Act III, Scene I”, in Henry IV, Part 1‎^[2]:

     See, how this river comes me cranking in...

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin comes (“a companion”). Doublet of count.

Noun

comes

1. (music) The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “comes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) comes

1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

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Catalan

Noun

comes

1. plural of coma

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Galician

Verb

comes

1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

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Ladin

Noun

comes

1. plural of coma

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Latin

Etymology

From com- + the stem of eō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mes/, [ˈkɔmɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mes/, [ˈkɔːmes]

Noun

comes m or f (genitive comitis); third declension

1. a companion, comrade, partner
2. an attendant, a servant
3. (Medieval Latin) a count, an earl

   Coordinate term: comitissa

   • 1678, du Cange, Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, page 422b:

     Quapropter in illa parte Saxoniæ Trutmannum virum illustrem ibidem Comitem ordinavimus, ut resideat in curte ad campos, in mallo publico, ad universorum causas audiendas, vel recta judicia terminanda : iisque advocatum omnium Presbyterorum in tota Saxonia fideliter agat, superque Vicarios et Scabinos quos sub se habet, diligenter inquirat, et animadvertat ut officia sua sedulo peragant : tandem idem Comes omnia sua sibi singulariter a nobis præscripta toto conatu ac viribus perficiat, etc.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	comes	comitēs
Genitive	comitis	comitum
Dative	comitī	comitibus
Accusative	comitem	comitēs
Ablative	comite	comitibus
Vocative	comes	comitēs

Derived terms

• burgicomes (Mediaeval)
• comes prīncipālis (Mediaeval)
• comitium
• comitō/ comitor

Descendants

• Aragonese: conte
• Armenian: կոմս (koms)
• Asturian: conde
• Catalan: comte
• English: count, comes, comte, constable
• French: comte
• Friulian: cont
• Greek: κόμης (kómis), κοντόσταβλος (kontóstavlos)
• Irish: cunta
• Italian: comito, conte
• Occitan: comte
• Old French: cuens, cons (nominative case), conte (oblique case)
• Portuguese: conde
• Romanian: comite
• Sicilian: conti
• Spanish: conde, cómitre
• Venetian: conte

References

• “comes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “comes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• comes 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)
• comes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “comes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “comes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: co‧mes

Verb

comes

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkomes/ [ˈko.mes]

Verb

comes

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of comer.