comes
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʌmz/
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Verb
comes
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of come
- intransitive verb
- transitive verb (obsolete) 1597, William Shakespeare, “Act III, Scene I”, in Henry IV, Part 1:
- See, how this river comes me cranking in...
Noun
comes
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for comes in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Asturian
Catalan
Galician
Ladin
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈko.mes/, [ˈkɔ.mɛs]
Noun
comes m or f (genitive comitis); third declension
- a companion, comrade, partner
- an attendant, a servant
- (Medieval Latin) a count, an earl
- Coordinate term: comitissa
- 1678, du Cange, Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, page 422b:
- Quapropter in illa parte Saxoniæ Trutmannum virum illustrem ibidem Comitem ordinavimus, ut resideat in curte ad campos, in mallo publico, ad universorum causas audiendas, vel recta judicia terminanda : iisque advocatum omnium Presbyterorum in tota Saxonia fideliter agat, superque Vicarios et Scabinos quos sub se habet, diligenter inquirat, et animadvertat ut officia sua sedulo peragant : tandem idem Comes omnia sua sibi singulariter a nobis præscripta toto conatu ac viribus perficiat, etc.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | comes | comitēs |
Genitive | comitis | comitum |
Dative | comitī | comitibus |
Accusative | comitem | comitēs |
Ablative | comite | comitibus |
Vocative | comes | comitēs |
Derived terms
- burgicomes (Mediaeval)
- comes prīncipālis (Mediaeval)
- comitium
- comitō/ comitor
Descendants
- Asturian: conde
- Armenian: կոմս (koms)
- Catalan: comte
- English: count, comes, comte, constable
- French: comte
- Friulian: cont
- Greek: κόμης (kómis), κοντόσταβλος (kontóstavlos)
- Irish: cunta
- Italian: comito, conte
- Occitan: comte
- Old French: cuens, cons (nominative case), conte (oblique case)
- Portuguese: conde
- Romanian: comite
- Sicilian: conti
- Spanish: conde, cómitre
- Venetian: conte
References
- comes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- comes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- comes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- comes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comes in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: co‧mes
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkomes/
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