Noun: comes
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | comes |
| Plural | comitēs |
Genitive
| Singular | comitis |
| Plural | comitum |
Dative
| Singular | comitī |
| Plural | comitibus |
Accusative
| Singular | comitem |
| Plural | comitēs |
Ablative
| Singular | comite |
| Plural | comitibus |
Vocative
| Singular | comes |
| Plural | comitēs |
Sample Sentences
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Comitemne sorōrem / sprēvistī moriēns? (“Did you not spurn your sister as a companion in death?”) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.677-678]
Nouns inflected like comes
antistes,
abbacomes,
caespes,
praestes,
dīves,
eques,
comes,
fōmes,
līmes,
mīles,
pedes,
vēles,
vicecomes,
gurges,
merges,
caeles,
cocles,
circes,
hospes,
superstes, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. Latin com-
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-ts
10. Proto-Indo-European *-h₁its
11. Proto-Italic *-its
12. Latin -es
13. Latin comes
14. From com- (“together”) + -es (“-faring”).
15. Compare typologically English associate (via Latin, <<~ (ad- +) Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”)), Russian после́дователь (poslédovatelʹ) (akin to сле́довать (slédovatʹ)), спу́тник (spútnik) (akin to путь (putʹ)), сосе́д (soséd) (akin to сиде́ть (sidétʹ)).
Verbs referencing "comes"
Catalan Nouns
comte, French Nouns
comte, English Nouns
comes, Italian Nouns
conte, Czech Nouns
kmet, Asturian Nouns
conde, Portuguese Nouns
conde, Ancient Greek Nouns
κόμης, Greek Nouns
κόμης, Bulgarian Nouns
кмет, Irish Nouns
cunta, Italian Nouns
comito.
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