Translingual

Proper noun

Cometes f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Caryophyllaceae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots - clades; Caryophyllales - order; Caryophyllaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Cometes abyssinica, Cometes surattensis

Catalan

Noun

cometes

1. plural of cometa

Latin

Alternative forms

• comēta

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

comētēs m ‎(genitive comētae); first declension

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

Declension

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ēs.

See also

• crinis

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cŏmētēs”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• cometes in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia

Portuguese

Verb

cometes

1. second-person singular present indicative of cometer

Spanish

Verb

cometes

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