cometer

• commetter (pre-standardization spelling)
  • cometter, commeter (pre-standardization spelling)

From Old Galician-Portuguese cometer, from Latin committere.

• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ter

cometer (first-person singular present cometo, first-person singular preterite cometi, past participle cometido)

1. (transitive) to commit, practice, undertake
2. (pronominal) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
3. (archaic) obsolete form of acometer
   • 1614, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinaçam:

     […] , &ao outro dia pella menhã ſendo nos tãto auante como Cezimbra nos cometeo hum Frances coſſairo, & abalroando com noſco,nos lãçou dento quinze ou vinte homẽs, […]

     […] , and in the next day by the morning, when we were as far as Cezimbra, a French corsair assailed us, and colliding with us sent fifteen or twenty men inside, […]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cometer.

• meter

• “cometer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cometer”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “cometer”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cometer”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cometer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish cometer, from Latin committere.

• IPA^(key): /komeˈteɾ/ [ko.meˈt̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: co‧me‧ter

cometer (first-person singular present cometo, first-person singular preterite cometí, past participle cometido)

1. (transitive) to commit
2. (transitive) to make (an error, etc)

• “cometer”, 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