cometer

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cometer, from Latin committere, present active infinitive of committō.

Alternative forms

Verb

cometer (first-person singular present indicative cometo, past participle cometido)

  1. to commit, practice, undertake
  2. (archaic) Obsolete form of acometer.
    • 1614, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinaçam:
      [] , &ao outro dia pella menhã ſendo nos tãto auante como Cezimbra nos cometeo hum Frances coſſairo, & abalroando com noſco,nos lãçou dento quinze ou vinte homẽs, []
      [] , and in the next day by the morning, when we were as far as Cezimbra, a French corsair assailed us, and colliding with us sent fifteen or twenty men inside, []

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:cometer.


Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish cometer, from Latin committere, present active infinitive of committō.

Verb

cometer (first-person singular present cometo, first-person singular preterite cometí, past participle cometido)

  1. (transitive) to commit
  2. (transitive) to make (an error, etc)

Conjugation

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