# comes
## English
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʌmz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌmz

#### Verb

comes
* third-person singular simple present indicative of come
** intransitive verb 1998, L. Kip Wheeler, Utopian Literature‎:The term utopia comes from a Greek pun.
** transitive verb (obsolete) 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1‎, 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: /ˈkəʊmiːz/, /ˈkəʊmɪs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

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

### Anagrams

* MECOs

## Asturian
### Verb

comes
* second-person singular present indicative of comer

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.məs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈko.mes]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

comes
* plural of coma (“coma”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

comes
* plural of coma (“comma”)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

comes
* plural of coma (“combe, cwm, cirque”)

## Galician
### Verb

comes
* second-person singular present indicative of comer

## Ladin
### Noun

comes
* plural of coma

## Latin
### Etymology

From com- (“together”) +‎ -es (“-faring”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

comes m or f (genitive comitis); third declension
* 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?”
* an attendant, a servant
* (Medieval Latin) a count, an earl
    Coordinate term: comitissa

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* abbacomes (Medieval Latin)
* burgicomes (Medieval Latin)
* comes hī̆rsūtus (Medieval Latin)
* comes prīncipālis (Medieval Latin)
* comes silvester (Medieval Latin)
* 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
** Galician: 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: /ˈkõ.mis/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkõ.mis/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈkõ.miʃ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈko.mes/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɔ.mɨʃ/
* Hyphenation: co‧mes

### Verb

comes
* second-person singular present indicative of comer

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkomes/ [ˈko.mes]
* Rhymes: -omes
* Syllabification: co‧mes

### Verb

comes
* second-person singular present indicative of comer