comedo

• comedone

From Latin comedō (“glutton”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmədəʊ/, /kəˈmiːdəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

comedo (plural comedones or comedos)

1. (medicine) A clogged hair follicle in the skin, formed when keratin combines with oil to block the follicle.

   Coordinate terms: (blackhead) open comedo, (whitehead) closed comedo

   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:

     Lying on, in, under her, I pore with squinnying eyes on a mole on that browngold rivercolour riverripple skin with its smell of sun, or else a tiny unsqueezed comedo by the flat and splaying nose.

• comedo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• coomed

• commedo

Borrowed from Latin cōmoedus, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδός (kōmōidós, “chorus singer; comic poet”), from κωμῳδία (kōmōidía, “comedy, play”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈmɛ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛdo
• Hyphenation: co‧mè‧do

comedo m (plural comedi) (literary)

1. a writer of comedies
2. an actor of comedies

• commedia

• tragedo

• comedo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• comode

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.mɛ.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.me.d̪o]

From con- +‎ edō (“I eat”).

comedō (present infinitive comedere or comēsse, perfect active comēdī, supine comēsum or comēstum); third conjugation, irregular alternative forms

1. to eat or chew up
2. to consume or devour
3. to fret or chafe
4. to waste or squander

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *comēre (see there for further descendants)

From comedō +‎ -ō.

comedō m (genitive comedōnis); third declension

1. glutton, gormandizer

   Synonyms: cataphagās, comēstor, dēgulātor, edō, gāneō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, helluō, lurcō, mandō, mandūcō, mandūcus, phagō, polyphagus

Third-declension noun.

• “comedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “comedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• comedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.