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
  • IPA(key): /ˈkəʊmiːz/, /ˈkəʊmɪs/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

comes

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “comes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

comes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma (“coma”)

Noun

comes

  1. plural of coma (“comma”)

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.

Case 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)
  • → 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
  • Venetian: 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’s 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
     
    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkõ.mis/
      • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈkõ.miʃ/
      • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈko.mes/

    • 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
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