cometa

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/
• Syllabification: co‧me‧ta
• Rhymes: -eta

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. comet

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cometa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: co‧me‧ta

cometa m (plural cometes)

1. (astronomy) comet (a celestial body, generally with a tail)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈmɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koˈmə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koˈme.ta]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

cometa m (plural cometes)

1. comet

From coma +‎ -eta.

cometa f (plural cometes)

1. quotation mark (one of the symbols ', ", «, or »)

• “cometa”, 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
• “cometa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cometa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cometa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. comet

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈme.ta/, /koˈmɛ.ta/^[1]

• Audio::

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• Rhymes: -eta, -ɛta
• Hyphenation: co‧mé‧ta, co‧mè‧ta

cometa f (plural comete)

1. comet

• cometa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• cometa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• cometa in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• cometa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• cometa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈmeː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈmɛː.t̪a]

comēta m (genitive comētae); first declension

1. alternative form of comētēs
   • 1666, Theatri Cometici Exitus De Significatione Cometarum, page 2:

     Rem mihi pergratam & publico per utilem, Vir Humanissime, fecisti, quod occasione operis mei & sententiae de Significatione Cometarum multa, eaque gravia, dubia moveris.

     Most kind man, you have done me a very pleasing service and the public a very useful service, because you have removed many, and serious, problems on the occasion of my work and opinion on the Significance of Comets.

   • 1833, Supplement to Dr. Bradley's Miscellaneous Works: with an Account of Harriot's Astronomical Papers, page 54:

     Docet philosophia Newtoniana cometas equidem ac planetas attractionis vi, quae in ratione duplicata distantiarum reciproca a sole est, in orbibus ellipticis circa solem in communi foco positum revolvi.

     Newtonian physics teaches that comets, just like planets, circle in elliptical orbits around the sun as a common focus, by the force of attraction which is proportional to the inverse squared distance from the sun.

First-declension noun.

comēta m

1. comet
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCLXXVIII Hēr atēowede comēta se steorra on Auguste ⁊ sċān III monðas ælċe morgen swilċe sunne bēam.

     Year 678 In this year a comet star appeared in August and shone like a sunbeam each morning for three months.

Weak:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cométa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Rhymes: (most dialects) -etɐ, (Southern Brazil) -eta
• Hyphenation: co‧mê‧ta

Learned borrowing from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. (astronomy) comet (celestial body with a “tail” of matter)

• cometário
• cometologia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cometa

1. inflection of cometer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “cometa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cometa”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “cometa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cometa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cometa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cometa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: co‧me‧ta

Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. (astronomy) comet

• → Cebuano: kometa

cometa f (plural cometas)

1. kite (toy)

   Synonyms: (Cuba, Honduras, Mexico) papalote, (Argentina, Nicaragua) barrilete, (El Salvador) piscucha, papalota, (Peru, Chile, Argentina) volantín, (Dominican Republic) chichigua

2. kite (shape)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cometa

1. inflection of cometer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “cometa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “cometa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “cometa”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
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