cometes

cometes

1. plural of cometa

• comēta

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired; comet”), from κομᾰ́ω (komáō, “let the hair grow long”) +‎ -της (-tēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈmeː.teːs/, [kɔˈmeː.teːs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈme.tes/, [koˈmeː.tes]

comētēs m (genitive comētae); first declension

1. A comet, meteor, shooting star.
2. A portent of disaster.

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

• crinis

• 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

cometes

1. second-person singular (tu) present indicative of cometer

• IPA^(key): /koˈmetes/, [koˈmet̪es]

cometes

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of cometer.