cometer

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cometer, from Latin committere, present active infinitive of committō.

Alternative forms

• cometter (obsolete)
• commeter (obsolete)
• commetter (obsolete)

Verb

1. to commit, practice, undertake
2. (archaic) Obsolete form of acometer.
   • 1614, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinaçam:

     […] , &ao outro dia pella menhã ſendo nos tãto auante como Cezimbra nos cometeo hum Frances coſſairo, & abalroando com noſco,nos lãçou dento quinze ou vinte homẽs, […]

     […] , and in the next day by the morning, when we were as far as Cezimbra, a French corsair assailed us, and colliding with us sent fifteen or twenty men inside, […]

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Related terms

• meter

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cometer.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish cometer, from Latin committere, present active infinitive of committō.

Verb

1. (transitive) to commit
2. (transitive) to make (an error, etc)

Derived terms

• acometer

Related terms

• meter