cometa
Aragonese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cometa m (plural cometas)
References
[edit]- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cometa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cometa m (plural cometes)
Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [kuˈmɛ.tə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [koˈmə.tə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [koˈme.ta]
Audio (Catalonia): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛta
- Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).
Noun
[edit]cometa m (plural cometes)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]cometa f (plural cometes)
- quotation mark (one of the symbols ', ", «, or »)
Further reading
[edit]- “cometa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cometa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cometa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cometa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cometa m (plural cometas)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /koˈme.ta/, /koˈmɛ.ta/[1]
Audio:: (file) - Rhymes: -eta, -ɛta
- Hyphenation: co‧mé‧ta, co‧mè‧ta
Noun
[edit]cometa f (plural comete)
References
[edit]- ^ cometa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
[edit]- cometa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- cometa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- cometa in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- cometa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- cometa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /koˈmeː.ta/, [kɔˈmeːt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈme.ta/, [koˈmɛːt̪ä]
Noun
[edit]comēta m (genitive comētae); first declension
- Alternative form of comētēs
- 1666, Theatri Cometici Exitus De Significatione Cometarum, page 2:
- Rem mihi pergratam & publico per utilem, Vir Humanissime, fecisti, quod occasione operis mei & sententiae de Significatione Cometarum multa, eaque gravia, dubia moveris.
- Most kind man, you have done me a very pleasing service and the public a very useful service, because you have removed many, and serious, problems on the occasion of my work and opinion on the Significance of Comets.
- 1833, Supplement to Dr. Bradley's Miscellaneous Works: with an Account of Harriot's Astronomical Papers, page 54:
- Docet philosophia Newtoniana cometas equidem ac planetas attractionis vi, quae in ratione duplicata distantiarum reciproca a sole est, in orbibus ellipticis circa solem in communi foco positum revolvi.
- Newtonian physics teaches that comets, just like planets, circle in elliptical orbits around the sun as a common focus, by the force of attraction which is proportional to the inverse squared distance from the sun.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | comēta | comētae |
Genitive | comētae | comētārum |
Dative | comētae | comētīs |
Accusative | comētam | comētās |
Ablative | comētā | comētīs |
Vocative | comēta | comētae |
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).
Noun
[edit]cometa m (plural cometas)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]cometa
- inflection of cometer:
Further reading
[edit]- “cometa”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “cometa” in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “cometa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “cometa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “cometa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “cometa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”).
Noun
[edit]cometa m (plural cometas)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Cebuano: kometa
Noun
[edit]cometa f (plural cometas)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]cometa
- inflection of cometer:
Further reading
[edit]- “cometa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Aragonese terms derived from Latin
- Aragonese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Aragonese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Aragonese/eta
- Rhymes:Aragonese/eta/3 syllables
- Aragonese lemmas
- Aragonese nouns
- Aragonese countable nouns
- Aragonese masculine nouns
- Asturian terms derived from Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Asturian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Asturian/eta
- Rhymes:Asturian/eta/3 syllables
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian masculine nouns
- ast:Astronomy
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Catalan/ɛta
- Rhymes:Catalan/ɛta/3 syllables
- Catalan terms borrowed from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns ending in -a
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Catalan terms suffixed with -eta
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Astronomy
- ca:Punctuation marks
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/eta
- Rhymes:Galician/eta/3 syllables
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician nouns with irregular gender
- Galician masculine nouns
- gl:Astronomy
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Italian/eta
- Rhymes:Italian/eta/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛta
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛta/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the first declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin terms with quotations
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/etɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/etɐ/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/eta
- Rhymes:Portuguese/eta/3 syllables
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
- Portuguese learned borrowings from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese nouns with irregular gender
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Astronomy
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/eta
- Rhymes:Spanish/eta/3 syllables
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish nouns with irregular gender
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Astronomy
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- es:Shapes
- es:Toys
- Spanish nouns that have different meanings depending on their gender