cometes

See also: Cometes, cometés, and comètes

Catalan

Noun

cometes

1. plural of cometa

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Latin

Alternative forms

• comēta

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈmeː.teːs/, [kɔˈmeːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈme.tes/, [koˈmɛːt̪es]

Noun

comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension

1. A comet, meteor, shooting star.
2. A portent of disaster.

Declension

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

See also

• crinis

References

• “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]

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Portuguese

Verb

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈmetes/ [koˈme.t̪es]

Verb

cometes

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