FromLatin comēta Ancient Greek κομήτης ( komḗtēs ,“ long-haired ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /koˈmeta/ Syllabification:co‧me‧ta Rhymes:-eta cometa m plural cometas
comet FromLatin comēta Ancient Greek κομήτης ( komḗtēs ,“ long-haired ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪a] Rhymes:-eta Syllabification:co‧me‧ta cometa m plural cometes
( astronomy ) comet ( a celestial body, generally with a tail ) Borrowed fromLatin comēta Ancient Greek κομήτης ( komḗtēs ,“ long-haired ” ) .
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quotation mark ( one of the symbols ', ", «, or » ) “cometa ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana Dictionary of the Catalan Language Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “cometa ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2025 “cometa” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“cometa” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.FromLatin comēta Ancient Greek κομήτης ( komḗtēs ,“ long-haired ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪ɐ] Rhymes:-eta Hyphenation:co‧me‧ta cometa m plural cometas
comet FromLatin comēta Ancient Greek κομήτης ( komḗtēs ,“ long-haired ” ) .
cometa f plural comete
comet cometa inCollins Italian-English Dictionary cometa inLuciano Canepari ,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI) cometa in Aldo Gabrielli,Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)cometa inDizionario Italiano Olivetti , Olivetti Media Communicationcometa in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italianacomēta m genitive comētae first declension
alternative form ofcomētēs 1666 Theatri Cometici Exitus De Significatione Cometarum ,page 2 :Rem mihi pergratam & publico per utilem, Vir Humanissime, fecisti, quod occasione operis mei & sententiae de SignificationeCometarum 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 ofComets . 1833 Supplement to Dr. Bradley's Miscellaneous Works: with an Account of Harriot's Astronomical Papers ,page54 :Docet philosophia Newtonianacometas 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 thatcomets , 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. First-declension noun.
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comet The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle An. DCLXXVIII Hēr atēowedecomēta se steorra on Auguste ⁊ sċān III monðas ælċe morgen swilċe sunne bēam.Year 678 In this year acomet star appeared in August and shone like a sunbeam each morning for three months.Weak:
Rhymes:( most dialects ) -etɐ ( Southern Brazil ) -eta Hyphenation:co‧mê‧ta Learned borrowing fromLatin comēta Ancient Greek κομήτης ( komḗtēs ,“ long-haired ” ) .
cometa m plural cometas
( astronomy ) comet ( celestial body with a “tail” of matter ) See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
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inflection ofcometer first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative “cometa ”, inDicionário Aulete Digital 2025 “cometa ”, inDicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025 “cometa ” inDicionário Aberto based onNovo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo , 1913 “cometa ”, inDicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa 2025 “cometa ”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa 2025 “cometa ”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa 2025 IPA (key ) : /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪a] Rhymes:-eta Syllabification:co‧me‧ta Borrowed fromLatin comēta Ancient Greek κομήτης ( komḗtēs ,“ longhaired ” ) , referring to the tail of a comet, fromκόμη ( kómē ,“ hair ” ) .
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kite (toy)Synonyms: ( Cuba, Honduras, Mexico ) papalote ( Argentina, Nicaragua ) barrilete ( El Salvador ) piscucha papalota ( Peru, Chile, Argentina ) volantín ( Dominican Republic ) chichigua kite (shape)See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
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inflection ofcometer first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative “cometa ”, inDiccionario de la lengua española Dictionary of the Spanish Language Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española ], 10 December 2024 “cometa ”, inDiccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish:Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española ],2010 Manuel Seco ; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “cometa ”, inDiccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish BBVA Foundation ]cometa | Diccionario • DELE Ahora 
