κομήτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κομάω (komáō, “to have long hair”) +‎ -της (-tēs).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

κομήτης • (komḗtēs) m; first declension

  1. wearing long hair, long-haired
  2. (figurative) feathered (of an arrow); grassy (of a meadow)
  3. (nominalized, astronomy) comet

Declension

Occurs only in the masculine

First declension of ὁ κομήτης; τοῦ κομήτου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κομήτης
ho komḗtēs 		τὼ κομήτᾱ
tṑ komḗtā 		οἱ κομῆται
hoi komêtai
Genitive τοῦ κομήτου
toû komḗtou 		τοῖν κομήταιν
toîn komḗtain 		τῶν κομητῶν
tôn komētôn
Dative τῷ κομήτῃ
tōî komḗtēi 		τοῖν κομήταιν
toîn komḗtain 		τοῖς κομήταις
toîs komḗtais
Accusative τὸν κομήτην
tòn komḗtēn 		τὼ κομήτᾱ
tṑ komḗtā 		τοὺς κομήτᾱς
toùs komḗtās
Vocative κομῆτᾰ
komêtă 		κομήτᾱ
komḗtā 		κομῆται
komêtai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → Latin: comētēs (see there for further descendants)
  • → Belarusian: каме́та (kamjéta)
  • → Bulgarian: коме́та (kométa)
  • → Esperanto: kometo
  • → Greek: κομήτης (komítis) (learned)
  • → Ido: kometo
  • → Macedonian: комета (kometa)
  • → Russian: коме́та (kométa) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kométa
  • → Ukrainian: коме́та (kométa)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόμη (> DER > κομήτης)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 743-4

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