comes
English
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʌmz/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌmz
Verb
comes
- third-person singular simple present indicative of come
- intransitive verb 1998, L. Kip Wheeler, Utopian Literature[1]:
- The term utopia comes from a Greek pun.
- transitive verb (obsolete) 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1[2], act III, scene I:
- See, how this river comes me cranking in...
- intransitive verb
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin comes (“a companion”). Doublet of comte, conte, and count.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkəʊmiːz/, /ˈkəʊmɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
comes
Anagrams
Asturian
Verb
comes
- second-person singular present indicative of comer
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
comes
- plural of coma (“coma”)
Etymology 2
Noun
comes
- plural of coma (“comma”)
Etymology 3
Noun
comes
- plural of coma (“combe, cwm, cirque”)
Galician
Verb
comes
- second-person singular present indicative of comer
Ladin
Noun
comes
- plural of coma
Latin
Etymology
From com- (“together”) + -es (“-faring”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔ.mɛs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔː.mes]
Noun
comes m or f (genitive comitis); third declension
- a companion, comrade, partner, associate
- Synonyms: amīcus, necessārius, sodālis, contubernālis
- an attendant, a servant
- (Medieval Latin) a count, an earl
- Coordinate term: comitissa
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | comes | comitēs |
genitive | comitis | comitum |
dative | comitī | comitibus |
accusative | comitem | comitēs |
ablative | comite | comitibus |
vocative | comes | comitēs |
Derived terms
- abbacomes (Medieval Latin)
- burgicomes (Medieval Latin)
- comes hī̆rsūtus (Medieval Latin)
- comes prīncipālis (Medieval Latin)
- comes silvester (Medieval Latin)
- comitium
- comitō, comitor
Descendants
- → Arabic: قَوْمَس (qawmas)
- Aragonese: conte
- Asturian: conde
- → Catalan: còmit (learned)
- → English: comes
- Friulian: cont
- → Koine Greek: κόμης (kómēs)
- Italian: comito, conte
- Old French: cuens, cons (nominative case), conte (oblique case)
- Old Occitan: comte
- Old Galician-Portuguese: conde
- → Romanian: comite
- Sicilian: conti
- → Proto-Slavic: *kъmetь
- Spanish: conde, cómitre
- Venetan: conte
References
- “comes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "comes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- comes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “comes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “comes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkõ.mis/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈkõ.miʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈko.mes/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.mɨʃ/
- Hyphenation: co‧mes
Verb
comes
- second-person singular present indicative of comer
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkomes/ [ˈko.mes]
- Rhymes: -omes
- Syllabification: co‧mes
Verb
comes
- second-person singular present indicative of comer