komer

See also: Komer

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish comer (“to eat”), from Vulgar Latin *comēre, restructuring of Classical Latin comedere.

Pronunciation

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Verb

komer (Hebrew spelling קומיר)[1]

  1. (ambitransitive) to eat; to dine (on something) [16th. c]
    • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎[1], volumes 26–28, page 60:
      Se torno el haham dezesperado a su kaza i komio kon muncha ansia, despues de lo kualo metio su vestido blanko de Yom Kippur i entro al kal.
      The sagely yet desperate rabbi returned home and ate anxiously, after which he put on white clothes for Yom Kippur and entered the synagogue.
  2. (figurative, transitive) to eat away (corrode)

Conjugation

Ladino conjugation varies by dialect. The following table is a general overview.

Conjugation of komer (regular ending in -er)
Infinitive Simple komer
Compound aver komido
Gerund Simple komiendo
Compound aviendo komido
Present Participle komiente
Past Participle Singular Plural
Masculine komido komidos
Femenine komida komidas
Person Singular Plural
First Second Third First Second Third
Indicative yo tu el/eya mozotros vozotros eyos/eyas
Present komo komes kome komimos komesh komen
Imperfect komía komías komía komíamos komíash komían
Preterite komí komites komió komimos komitesh komieron
Future komeré komerás komerá komeremos komerésh
komerásh1 		komerán
Subjunctive yo tu el/eya mozotros vozotros eyos/eyas
Present koma komas koma komamos komash koman
Imperfect komiera komieras komiera komiéramos komierash komieran
Conditional yo tu el/eya mozotros vozotros eyos/eyas
— komería komerías komería komeríamos komeríash komerían
Imperative — tu — mozotros vozotros —
Affirmative kome komamos komé
komed
Negative no komas no komamos no komash
  1. Future forms ending in -ash are more common in speech than in writing.

Noun

komer m (Hebrew spelling קומיר)[1]

  1. (countable) eating; food; meal
    Synonyms: alimento, komida
    • 2000, La Lettre Sépharade‎[2], numbers 1–19, La Lettre Sépharade, page 6:
      Kuando vyenen de Israel los paryentes i amigos, syempre fazemos notchadas a mi kaza kon komeres de los Sefardim i todos se konsolan komyendo guevos inhaminados, burekitas, pastilikos, bumuelos, pita di letche, tajikos i otras kumidas savurozas.
      When relatives and friends come from Israel, we always throw night parties at my house with Sephardic meals and everybody comforts theirselves eating cholent eggs, little cheese patries, [other] pastries, doughnuts, milk bread, small cuts and other savoury dishes.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “komer”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
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