cometer

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cometer, from Latin committere.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.meˈte(ʁ)/ [ko.meˈte(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ko.meˈte(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ko.meˈte(ʁ)/ [ko.meˈte(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.meˈte(ɻ)/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.mɨˈteɾ/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.mɨˈte.ɾi/

  • Hyphenation: co‧me‧ter

Verb

cometer (first-person singular present cometo, first-person singular preterite cometi, past participle cometido)

  1. (transitive) to commit, practice, undertake
  2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
  3. (archaic) Obsolete form of acometer.
    • 1614, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinaçam:
      [] , &ao outro dia pella menhã ſendo nos tãto auante como Cezimbra nos cometeo hum Frances coſſairo, & abalroando com noſco,nos lãçou dento quinze ou vinte homẽs, []
      [] , and in the next day by the morning, when we were as far as Cezimbra, a French corsair assailed us, and colliding with us sent fifteen or twenty men inside, []

Conjugation

Quotations

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Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish cometer, from Latin committere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /komeˈteɾ/ [ko.meˈt̪eɾ]
  • Rhymes: -eɾ
  • Syllabification: co‧me‧ter

Verb

cometer (first-person singular present cometo, first-person singular preterite cometí, past participle cometido)

  1. (transitive) to commit
  2. (transitive) to make (an error, etc)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

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