comedo
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin comedō (“glutton”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈkɒmədəʊ/, /kəˈmiːdəʊ/
Audio (Southern England); /kəˈmiːdəʊ/: (file) - Rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Noun[edit]
comedo (plural comedones or comedos)
- (medicine) A blackhead or whitehead.
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
- Lying on, in, under her, I pore with squinnying eyes on a mole on that browngold rivercolour riverripple skin with its smell of sun, or else a tiny unsqueezed comedo by the flat and splaying nose.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
A blackhead or whitehead
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin cōmoedus, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδός (kōmōidós, “chorus singer; comic poet”), from κωμῳδία (kōmōidía, “comedy, play”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
comedo m (plural comedi) (literary)
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- comedo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈko.me.doː/, [ˈkɔmɛd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.me.do/, [ˈkɔːmed̪o]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
comedō (present infinitive comedere or comēsse, perfect active comēdī, supine comēsus or comēstus); third conjugation, irregular
Conjugation[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *comēre (see there for further descendants)
Etymology 2[edit]
From comedō + -ō.
Noun[edit]
comedō m (genitive comedōnis); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | comedō | comedōnēs |
Genitive | comedōnis | comedōnum |
Dative | comedōnī | comedōnibus |
Accusative | comedōnem | comedōnēs |
Ablative | comedōne | comedōnibus |
Vocative | comedō | comedōnēs |
References[edit]
- “comedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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