cometes

== Asturian == === Noun === cometes plural of cometa == Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern) [kuˈme̞.təs] IPA(key): (Balearic) [koˈmə.təs] IPA(key): (Central) [kuˈmɛ.təs] IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [koˈme.tes] === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== cometes plural of cometa (“comet”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== cometes plural of cometa (“quotation mark”) == Latin == === Alternative forms === comēta === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired; comet”), from κομᾰ́ω (komắō, “to have long hair”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”), the former from κόμη (kómē, “hair”) which itself was borrowed into Latin as coma. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈmeː.teːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈmɛː.tes] === Noun === comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension (astronomy) a comet, meteor, shooting star Synonym: stēlla crīnīta a portent of disaster ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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] == Portuguese == === Verb === cometes second-person singular present indicative of cometer == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /koˈmetes/ [koˈme.t̪es] Rhymes: -etes Syllabification: co‧me‧tes === Verb === cometes second-person singular present indicative of cometer