comedo

From Latin comedō (“glutton”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmədəʊ/, /kəˈmiːdəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England, /kəˈmiːdəʊ/)

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• Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

comedo (plural comedones or comedos)

1. (medicine) A blackhead or whitehead.
   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:

     Lying on, in, under her, I pore with squinnying eyes on a mole on that browngold rivercolour riverripple skin with its smell of sun, or else a tiny unsqueezed comedo by the flat and splaying nose.

• coomed

• commedo

Borrowed from Latin cōmoedus, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδός (kōmōidós, “chorus singer; comic poet”), from κωμῳδία (kōmōidía, “comedy, play”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈmɛ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛdo
• Hyphenation: co‧mè‧do

comedo m (plural comedi) (literary)

1. a writer of comedies
2. an actor of comedies

• commedia

• tragedo

• comedo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• comode

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.me.doː/, [ˈkɔmɛd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.me.do/, [ˈkɔːmed̪o]

From con- +‎ edō (“I eat”).

comedō (present infinitive comedere or comēsse, perfect active comēdī, supine comēsus or comēstus); third conjugation, irregular

1. to eat or chew up
2. to consume or devour
3. to fret or chafe
4. to waste or squander

• comēsor
• comēstor
• comēstibilis
• comēstiō
• comēsus
• comēstūra

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *comēre (see there for further descendants)

From comedō +‎ -ō.

comedō m (genitive comedōnis); third declension

1. glutton, gormandizer

   Synonyms: cataphagās, comēstor, dēgulātor, edō, gāneō, glūtō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, helluō, lurcō, mandō, mandūcō, mandūcus, phagō, polyphagus

Third-declension noun.

• “comedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “comedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• comedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.