cometes

cometes

1. plural of cometa

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

cometes

1. plural of cometa (“comet”)

cometes

1. plural of cometa (“quotation mark”)

• comēta

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired; comet”), from κομᾰ́ω (komắō, “I have long hair”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”), the former from κόμη (kómē, “hair”) which itself was borrowed into Latin as coma.

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

comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension

1. a comet, meteor, shooting star

   Synonym: stēlla crīnīta

2. a portent of disaster

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

• “cŏmētes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cometes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cŏmētēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cometes”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]

cometes

1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer

• IPA^(key): /koˈmetes/ [koˈme.t̪es]
• Rhymes: -etes
• Syllabification: co‧me‧tes

cometes

1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer