coma

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊmə/

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• (US) enPR: kōʹmə, IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊmə/
• Rhymes: (UK) -əʊmə, (US) -oʊmə
• Homophone: comber (in non-rhotic accents)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma (plural comas)

1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

   go into a coma

   slip into a coma

   come out of a coma

   • 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:

     I wonder if a person who comes out of a coma feels refreshed and well rested.

• comatose

• persistent vegetative state
• brain death

Borrowed from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

Hubble image of an icy Comet, showing nucleus and coma

In this image the stars near the edge of the field form comae because of the comatic aberration of the wide-angle lens

In each of these trees the branches form a well-defined coma

In this turmeric plant, the tuft of magenta bracts form a coma

Each of these milkweed seeds has a coma of silky hairs at one end

coma (plural comae)

1. (astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
2. (optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
3. (botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

• AMOC, OAMC, camo, maco

coma

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comer

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈko.ma]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comes)

1. coma (deep sleep)

• comatós

Borrowed from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).

coma f (plural comes)

1. comma (punctuation mark)
2. (music) comma (type of rest)

• cometa
• punt i coma

From Gaulish *kumba, from Proto-Celtic *kumbā (“valley”). Compare Occitan comba, French combe.

coma f (plural comes)

1. combe, cwm, cirque

   Synonym: circ

2. an alpine meadow situated between two peaks

• com

• “coma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “coma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.maː/

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• Hyphenation: co‧ma
• Rhymes: -oːmaː

Borrowed from Latin coma, from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma).

coma n (plural coma's)

1. coma (state of unconsciousness)

Borrowed from Latin coma, from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē).

coma f (plural coma's, diminutive comaatje n)

1. coma (head of a comet)

Learned borrowing from Latin cōma, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ma/

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• Homophone: comas

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma (state of unconsciousness)
   • 1825, Etienne-Marin Bailly, Traité anatomico-pathologique des fièvres intermittentes simples et pernicieuses:

     Le coma suivi de symptômes convulsifs, est moins dangereux que lorsqu’il leur succède, à moins que dans ce dernier cas il soit nerveux, et que le malade se réveille facilement, on exécute, sinon des mouvements volontaires, au moins des mouvements automatiques.

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• comater
• comateux

• → Turkish: koma

• “coma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkomɐ/

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coma, this from Latin como plus either ad or ac.

coma

1. as (to the same degree that)

   Non es tan alto coma Xan ― You're not as tall as John.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coma (“mane”), from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

coma f (plural comas)

1. coma (of a comet)
2. mane (of a horse)

   Synonym: crina

Learned borrowing from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “I cut”).

coma f (plural comas)

1. (typography) comma

   Synonym: vírgula

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma (deep sleep)

• comatoso

coma

1. inflection of comer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “coma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “coma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “coma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “coma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “coma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• “coma”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

coma (uncountable)

1. coma

• comatose

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Hyphenation: cò‧ma

Borrowed from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē).

coma f (plural come)

1. (literary, obsolete) Synonym of chioma
2. (optics, uncountable) coma

• coma¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).

coma m (plural comi)

1. (typography) Alternative form of comma (“punctuation mark”)

• coma² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (invariable)

1. coma (deep sleep)

• comatoso

• coma³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• camo, macò, moca

coma f (plural comes)

1. (Val di Fassa, law) subsection
2. (Val di Fassa, orthography) comma

   Synonym: vìrgola

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair of the head”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma/, [ˈkɔmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma/, [ˈkɔːmä]

coma f (genitive comae); first declension

1. The hair of the head.

   Synonym: crīnis

2. foliage

First-declension noun.

• comātus
• comula

• “coma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coma 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)
• “coma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• Hyphenation: co‧ma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma, state of unconsciousness

• comatoso

Borrowed from Latin coma.

coma f (plural comas)

1. abundant hair of the head

   Synonym: cabeleira

2. mane
3. (astronomy) comet coma

• crina

Learned borrowing from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).

coma f (plural comas)

1. (archaic, grammar) comma
2. (music) comma
3. (music) eighth rest

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coma

1. inflection of comer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “coma” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “coma” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “coma” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “coma” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “coma” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “coma” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Old Irish cummae, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm-smiyo-, from *ḱóm (“beside, with, by”) + *sem- (“one, as one”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰomə/

coma

1. indifferent, unconcerned

   Tha e coma. ― He couldn't care less.

   'S mi a tha coma dè thachras. ― I don't give a damn what happens.

   Coma de sin! ― Never mind that! Forget that!

   Is coma sin ― It doesn't matter.

2. reckless, careless
3. expressing dislike or even hate when used with le

   Is coma leam thu ― I hate you.

   Is coma leis an rìgh Eòghann agus is coma le Eòghann co-dhiù ― The king doesn't like Eòghann, but Eòghann doesn't care whether the king likes him or not.

• coma-co-dhiù

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cummae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoma/ [ˈko.ma]

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• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: co‧ma

Borrowed from Latin comma.

coma f (plural comas)

1. comma (punctuation mark)
2. (church) misericord
3. (music) section

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma (deep sleep)

Borrowed from Latin coma.[1]

coma f (plural comas)

1. (rare) mane

   Synonym: crin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coma

1. inflection of comer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “coma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English comma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔma/

coma m (plural comas)

1. comma

   Synonym: atalnod