coma

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊmə/
• (US) enPR: kōʹmə, IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊmə/
• Homophone: comber (in non-rhotic accents)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma (plural comas)

1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

• comatose

• persistent vegetative state
• brain death

Borrowed from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

coma (plural comae)

1. (astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
2. (optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that should be points.
3. (botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

• OAMC, camo, maco

coma

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of comer
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of comer

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comes)

1. coma (deep sleep)

Borrowed from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).

coma f (plural comes)

1. comma (punctuation mark)

• cometa
• punt i coma

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• Hyphenation: co‧ma

coma n (plural coma's)

1. coma (state of unconsciousness)

coma f (plural coma's, diminutive comaatje n)

1. coma (head of a comet)

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma (state of unconsciousness)
   • 1825, Etienne-Marin Bailly, Traité anatomico-pathologique des fièvres intermittentes simples et pernicieuses

     Le coma suivi de symptômes convulsifs, est moins dangereux que lorsqu'il leur succède, à moins que dans ce dernier cas il soit nerveux, et que le malade se réveille facilement, on exécute, sinon des mouvements volontaires, au moins des mouvements automatiques.

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• comater
• comateux

• “coma” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

coma

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of comer
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of comer

coma (uncountable)

1. coma

• comatose

From Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (invariable)

1. coma (sleep)

• moca

coma f (plural comes)

1. (Val di Fassa, law) subsection
2. (Val di Fassa, orthography) comma

• (comma): vìrgola

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair of the head”), which is of uncertain origin and sometimes linked to κόμέω (“to care for (in the sense of hair)”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma/, [ˈkɔ.ma]

coma f (genitive comae); first declension

1. The hair of the head.
2. foliage

First declension.

• crīnis

• comātus
• comula

• coma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• coma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• IPA^(key): /ˈkomɐ/
• Hyphenation: co‧ma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma, state of unconsciousness

From Latin coma.

coma f (plural comas)

1. abundant hair of the head
2. mane
3. (astronomy) comet coma

• cabeleira

• crina

coma

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of comer
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of comer
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of comer
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of comer

From Old Irish cummae, from Proto-Indo-European *kom-smiyo-, from *kom (“beside, with, by”) + *sem- (“one, as one”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.mə/

coma

1. indifferent, unconcerned
   • Tha e coma.

     He couldn't care less.

   • 'S mi a tha coma dè thachras.

     I don't give a damn what happens.

   • Coma de sin!

     Never mind that! Forget that!

2. reckless, careless
3. or expressing dislike or even hate when used with le
   • Is coma leam thu

     I hate you.

   • Is coma leis an rìgh Eòghann agus is coma le Eòghann co-dhiù

     The king doesn't like Eòghann, but Eòghann doesn't care whether the king likes him or not.

• coma-co-dhiù

• “cummae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoma/

Borrowed from Latin comma.

coma f (plural comas)

1. comma
2. (church) misericord
3. (music) section

• punto y coma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma

Borrowed from Latin coma[1].

coma f (plural comas)

1. (rare) mane

• crin

coma

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of comer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of comer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of comer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of comer.

Borrowed from English comma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔma/

coma m (plural comas)

1. comma

• atalnod