comes

See also: Comes, comés, and comès

English

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʌmz/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌmz

Verb

comes

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of come

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin comes (a companion). Doublet of comte, conte, and count.

Pronunciation

Noun

comes

  1. (music) The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma (coma)

Etymology 2

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma (comma)

Etymology 3

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma (combe, cwm, cirque)

Galician

Verb

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Ladin

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma

Latin

Etymology

    From com- (together) +‎ -es (-faring).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    comes m or f (genitive comitis); third declension

    1. a companion, comrade, partner, associate
      Synonyms: amīcus, necessārius, sodālis, contubernālis
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.677-678:
        Comitemne sorōrem / sprēvistī moriēns?”
        “Did you not spurn your sister as a companion in death?”
    2. an attendant, a servant
    3. (Medieval Latin) a count, an earl
      Coordinate term: comitissa

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative comes comitēs
    genitive comitis comitum
    dative comitī comitibus
    accusative comitem comitēs
    ablative comite comitibus
    vocative comes comitēs

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Arabic: قَوْمَس (qawmas)
    • Aragonese: conte
    • Asturian: conde
    • Catalan: còmit (learned)
    • Emilian: cånt
    • English: comes
    • Friulian: cont
    • Koine Greek: κόμης (kómēs)
      • Byzantine Greek: κόμης (kómēs)
      • Classical Syriac: ܩܘܡܝܣ (qwmys), ܩܘܡܣ (qwms)
        • Old Armenian: կոմս (koms)
          • Old Georgian: კომსი (ḳomsi)
      • Old Armenian: կոմէս (komēs)
    • Italian: comito, conte
    • Old French: cuens, cons (nominative case), conte (oblique case)
    • Old Occitan: comte
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: conde
    • Romanian: comite
    • Sicilian: conti
    • Proto-Slavic: *kъmetь
    • Spanish: conde, cómitre
    • Venetan: 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

    Verb

    comes

    1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

    Spanish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkomes/ [ˈko.mes]
    • Rhymes: -omes
    • Syllabification: co‧mes

    Verb

    comes

    1. second-person singular present indicative of comer