cometes
Catalan
Noun
cometes
Latin
Alternative forms
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
- A comet, meteor, shooting star.
- 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
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]
Portuguese
Verb
cometes
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
cometes
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