com

• com., COM

com (plural coms)

1. Abbreviation of committee.

   Synonyms: cmte, comm

2. Abbreviation of communication.

   Synonym: comm

3. Abbreviation of command.

   Synonym: cmd

4. Abbreviation of comedy.
5. Abbreviation of company.

com

1. (Internet) Abbreviation of commercial; as in .com (the most known Internet top-level domain).
2. Abbreviation of common.

   l. com. car. a. ― left common carotid artery

• com ruou

• CMO, MCO, MOC, OMC, moc

From Proto-Chamic *cum. Compare Malay cium, Bahnar chŭm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɔm/

com

1. to kiss
2. (transitive) to smell

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *quomō, from classical Latin quōmodō. Cognate with Spanish como. See also French comme and Italian come.

• còm (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔm]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkom]

• Audio:

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com

1. (interrogative) how
2. like
3. (in comparisons, tan ... com) as ... as

Borrowed from Gaulish *kumbos (“curved”). Related to *kumbā (“valley”).

• cóm (pre-2016)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkom]

com m (plural coms)

1. trough, manger

   Synonym: obi

2. (geography) a steep-sided glacial valley with a level floor

   Synonym: vall d'obi

• coma

• “com” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cóm” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “com”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “com”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• 襟 (kam¹)

Possibly from clipping of English compromise.

com

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to reach consensus; to agree on common terms; to discuss
   • 2014, “Archived copy”, in 嶺南人‎^[2], number 115, archived from the original on 30 October 2022:

     傾／com庄：商討籌組一支侯選內閣。

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2017, 嶄越報‎^[3], number 24:

     由com莊、nom莊，去到promotion period，經過polling day，再過埋AGM，正式上莊，到依家都差唔多一年，經歷咗好多唔同嘅事 […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

com

1. pitchfork

• Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎^[4] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 14

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kʌmˠ/^[1]

com m (genitive singular coim or coma, nominative plural comanna)

1. Ulster form of coim (“waist”)

As a first-declension noun:

As a third-declension noun:

com (apocopated)

1. (obsolete) apocopic form of come

com (apocopated)

1. (obsolete) apocopic form of come

• OMC

From Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).

com (+ ablative)

1. Old Latin form of cum

• com in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• cu

• IPA^(key): [t͡sɔm]

com

1. first-person singular present of kśěś

• IPA^(key): /koːm/

cōm

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of cuman

• con
• cum

From Vulgar Latin *quomo, from classical Latin quomōdo. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French con, cum, etc.

com

1. like; as

com

1. how (in what fashion)
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, E mainh genh se volv e's vira

     No sai com me contenha

     I don't know how to act

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “quomodo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1542

• c, c/ (abbreviation)
• cum (eye dialect)
• cõ (obsolete, abbreviation)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”). Compare Fala and Galician con and Spanish con.

• Audio (Brazil):

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• Audio (Brazil):

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• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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• Rhymes: -õ
• Hyphenation: com

com

2. with; against

   Synonym: contra

   Antonym: a favor de

   Lutamos com os nossos inimigos.

   We fight [against] our enemies.

   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 282:

     Tenho coisas mais importantes a discutir com você hoje à noite.

     I have more important things to discuss with you tonight.

4. with; alongside; together with (in the company of)

   Synonyms: junto de, junto com, ao lado de

   Lutamos com os nossos amigos.

   We fight alongside our friends.

6. with (as a part or accessory of)

   Antonym: sem

   Compramos uma casa com uma garagem e com dois andares.

   We bought a house with a garage and with two storeys.

8. with (in support of)

   Synonym: a favor de

   Antonym: contra

   Quero saber se meus amigos estão comigo.

   I want to know whether my friends are with me.

10. with; using (by means of)

    Synonyms: a, usando

    Antonym: sem

    Escrevi o artigo com um lápis.

    I wrote the article with a pencil.

12. with (as a consequence of)

    Synonyms: por causa de, devido a

    Com a falência da fábrica, ficamos desempregados.

    With the bankruptcy of the factory, we ended up unemployed.

14. with; having

    Synonym: tendo

    Antonym: sem

    Estou com a pior dor de cabeça que o mundo já viu.

    I have the worst headache the world has ever seen.

The following com + prepositional pronoun phrases have mandatory contractions:

• com + mim → comigo
• com + ti → contigo
• com + si → consigo

The following are mandatory except when the phrase is qualified by an adjective phrase, such as mesmos or todos:

• com + nós → connosco (Portugal), conosco (Brazil)
• com + vós → convosco

Com + article contraction are colloquial, but are common in speech:

• com + o → co
• com + os → cos
• com + a → ca
• com + as → cas
• com + um → cum
• com + uns → cuns
• com + uma → cuma
• com + umas → cumas

For quotations using this term, see Citations:com.

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: ku
• Kabuverdianu: ku
• Macanese: co
• Papiamentu: ku, cu

From Old Irish comm, from the same ultimate as Proto-Celtic *kumbā (“valley”).^[1][2] Cognate with Irish coim.

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔum/^[3]

com m (genitive singular cuim, plural cuim)

1. bosom, breast, chest
2. trunk (body)
3. stomach

• teanntachd-cuim

<references/

• (Oro Naoʼ, Oro Mon) IPA^(key): /kom/

com n

1. water

• Everett, Daniel, Kern, Barbara (1997) Wari': the Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil, London: Routledge.
• Sousa, Maria de Fátima Lima de (2009) Dicionário da Língua Wari’ dialeto Oro Mon – Português [Dictionary of the Wari' Language, Oro Mon Dialect]‎^[5] (in Portuguese), Guajará-Mirim: Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia-UNIR, page 74.

Related to Persian جام (jâm).

com

1. glass