κομήτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κομάω (komáō, “to have long hair”) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.mɛ̌ː.tɛːs/ → /koˈmi.tis/ → /koˈmi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.mɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈme̝.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈmi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈmi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈmi.tis/

Adjective

κομήτης • (komḗtēs) m; first declension

1. wearing long hair, long-haired
2. (figurative) feathered (of an arrow); grassy (of a meadow)
3. (nominalized, astronomy) comet

Declension

Occurs only in the masculine

First declension of ὁ κομήτης; τοῦ κομήτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κομήτης ho komḗtēs	τὼ κομήτᾱ tṑ komḗtā	οἱ κομῆται hoi komêtai
Genitive	τοῦ κομήτου toû komḗtou	τοῖν κομήταιν toîn komḗtain	τῶν κομητῶν tôn komētôn
Dative	τῷ κομήτῃ tôi komḗtēi	τοῖν κομήταιν toîn komḗtain	τοῖς κομήταις toîs komḗtais
Accusative	τὸν κομήτην tòn komḗtēn	τὼ κομήτᾱ tṑ komḗtā	τοὺς κομήτᾱς toùs komḗtās
Vocative	κομῆτᾰ komêta	κομήτᾱ komḗtā	κομῆται komêtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: comētēs (see there for further descendants)
• → Belarusian: каме́та (kamjéta)
• → Bulgarian: коме́та (kométa)
• → Esperanto: kometo
• → Greek: κομήτης (komítis) (learned)
• → Ido: kometo
• → Macedonian: комета (kometa)
• → Russian: коме́та (kométa) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kométa
• → Ukrainian: коме́та (kométa)

Further reading

• κομήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κομήτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “κομήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hair idem, page 380.
• “κομήτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011