# cometa
## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈmeta/
* Rhymes: -eta
* Syllabification: co‧me‧ta

### Noun

cometa m (plural cometas)
* comet

### References

* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cometa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -eta
* Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

### Noun

cometa m (plural cometes)
* (astronomy) comet (a celestial body, generally with a tail)

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kuˈmɛ.tə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [koˈmə.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [koˈme.ta]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛta
* Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

#### Noun

cometa m (plural cometes)
* comet

### Etymology 2

From coma +‎ -eta.

#### Noun

cometa f (plural cometes)
* quotation mark (one of the symbols ', ", «, or »)

### Further reading

* “cometa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “cometa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “cometa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “cometa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -eta
* Hyphenation: co‧me‧ta

### Noun

cometa m (plural cometas)
* comet

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈme.ta/, /koˈmɛ.ta/
* Audio::(file)
* Rhymes: -eta, -ɛta
* Hyphenation: co‧mé‧ta, co‧mè‧ta

### Noun

cometa f (plural comete)
* comet

### References

* ↑ cometa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* cometa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* cometa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* cometa in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
* cometa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* cometa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /koˈmeː.ta/, [kɔˈmeːt̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /koˈme.ta/, [koˈmɛːt̪ä]

### Noun

comēta m (genitive comētae); first declension
* Alternative form of comētēs
** 1666, Theatri Cometici Exitus De Significatione Cometarum, page 2:Rem mihi pergratam & publico per utilem, Vir Humanissime, fecisti, quod occasione operis mei & sententiae de Significatione Cometarum 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 of Comets.
** 1833, Supplement to Dr. Bradley's Miscellaneous Works: with an Account of Harriot's Astronomical Papers, page 54:Docet philosophia Newtoniana cometas 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 that comets, 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.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

## Old English
### Noun

comēta m
* comet
** The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
    An. DCLXXVIII Hēr atēowede comēta se steorra on Auguste ⁊ sċān III monðas ælċe morgen swilċe sunne bēam.Year 678 In this year a comet star appeared in August and shone like a sunbeam each morning for three months.

#### Declension

Weak:

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cométa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /koˈme.tɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /koˈme.tɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /koˈme.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kuˈme.tɐ/
* Rhymes: (most dialects) -etɐ, (Southern Brazil) -eta
* Hyphenation: co‧mê‧ta

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).

#### Noun

cometa m (plural cometas)
* (astronomy) comet (celestial body with a “tail” of matter)

##### Related terms

* cometário
* cometologia

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cometa
* inflection of cometer:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cometa”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “cometa”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “cometa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “cometa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “cometa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “cometa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈmeta/ [koˈme.t̪a]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eta
* Syllabification: co‧me‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

#### Noun

cometa m (plural cometas)
* (astronomy) comet

##### Derived terms

* cometa Halley

##### Descendants

* → Cebuano: kometa

#### Noun

cometa f (plural cometas)
* kite (toy)
    Synonyms: (Cuba, Honduras, Mexico) papalote, (Argentina, Nicaragua) barrilete, (El Salvador) piscucha, papalota, (Peru, Chile, Argentina) volantín, (Dominican Republic) chichigua
* kite (shape)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cometa
* inflection of cometer:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cometa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “cometa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “cometa”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
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