comes

See also: Comes, comés, and comès

English

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʌmz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌmz

Verb

comes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of come
   • intransitive verb
     1998, L. Kip Wheeler, Utopian Literature‎^[1]:

     The term utopia comes from a Greek pun.

   • transitive verb (obsolete)
     1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1‎^[2], act III, scene I:

     See, how this river comes me cranking in...

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊmiːz/, /ˈkəʊmɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

comes

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

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Asturian

Verb

comes

1. second-person singular present indicative of comer

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.məs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈko.mes]

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mes/, [ˈkɔmɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mes/, [ˈkɔːmes]

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

• abbacomes (Mediaeval)
• burgicomes (Mediaeval)
• comes hī̆rsūtus (Mediaeval)
• comes prīncipālis (Mediaeval)
• comes silvester (Mediaeval)
• comitium
• comitō/comitor

 

Descendants

• → Arabic: قَوْمَس (qawmas)
• Aragonese: conte
• Asturian: conde
• → Catalan: còmit (learned)
• → English: comes
• Friulian: cont
• → Koine Greek: κόμης (kómēs)
  • Byzantine Greek: κόμης (kómēs)
    • Greek: κόμης (kómis)
  • → 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)
  • → English: count
  • → Romanian: conte
  • French: comte
    • → English: comte
  • → Irish: cunta
  • Norman: coumte
  • ⇒ Old French: conestable (see there for further descendants)
• Old Occitan: comte
  • Catalan: comte
  • Occitan: comte
• Old Galician-Portuguese: conde
  • Portuguese: conde
• → Romanian: comite
• Sicilian: conti
• → Proto-Slavic: *kъmetь
  • Bulgarian: кмет (kmet)
  • Czech: kmet
  • Macedonian: кмет (kmet)
  • Polish: kmieć
  • Serbo-Croatian: kmȅt
    • → English: kmet
  • Slovene: kmȅt
• 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’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/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkõ.mis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkõ.miʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mes/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.mɨʃ/

• 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