cometa

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. comet

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cometa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ISBN 978-84-7753-949-0

cometa m (plural cometes)

1. (astronomy) comet (a celestial body, generally with a tail)

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /koˈmə.tə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kuˈmɛ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /koˈme.ta/

cometa m (plural cometes)

1. comet

coma +‎ -eta

cometa f (plural cometes)

1. quotation mark (one of the symbols ', ", «, or »)

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. comet

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cometa f (plural comete)

1. comet

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈmeː.ta/, [kɔˈmeː.ta]

comēta m (genitive comētae); first declension

1. Alternative form of comētēs
   • 1666, Theatri Cometici Exitus De Significatione Cometarum , p. 2

     Rem mihi pergratam & publico per utilem, Vir Humanissime, fecisti, quod occasione operis mei & sententiae de Significatione Cometarum multa, eaque gravia, dubia moveris.

     Most kind man, you have done me a very pleasing service and the public a very useful service, because you have removed many, and serious, problems on the occasion of my work and opinion on the Significance of Comets.

   • 1833, Supplement to Dr. Bradley's Miscellaneous Works: with an Account of Harriot's Astronomical Papers , p. 54

     Docet philosophia Newtoniana cometas equidem ac planetas attractionis vi, quae in ratione duplicata distantiarum reciproca a sole est, in orbibus ellipticis circa solem in communi foco positum revolvi.

     Newtonian physics teaches that comets, just like planets, circle in elliptical orbits around the sun as a common focus, by the force of attraction which is proportional to the inverse squared distance from the sun.

First declension.

• French: comète

• Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.ˈme.ta/, /ko.ˈme.tɐ/

From Latin cometa, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. (astronomy) comet (celestial body with a “tail” of matter)

• cometário
• cometologia

Inflected form of cometer (“to commit”).

cometa

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

• IPA^(key): [ko̞ˈme̞.ta̠]

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

cometa m (plural cometas)

1. (astronomy) comet

cometa f (plural cometas)

1. kite

See cometer

cometa

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