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com (plural coms)

  1. Abbreviation of committee.
    Synonyms: cmte, comm
  2. Abbreviation of communication.
    Synonym: comm
  3. Abbreviation of command.
    Synonym: cmd
  4. Abbreviation of comedy.
  5. Abbreviation of company.

com

  1. (Internet) Abbreviation of commercial; as in .com (the most known Internet top-level domain).
  2. Abbreviation of common.
    l. com. car. a. ― left common carotid artery

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *quomō, from classical Latin quōmodō. Cognate with Spanish como. See also French comme and Italian come.

com

  1. (interrogative) how
  2. like
  3. (in comparisons, tan ... com) as ... as

Borrowed from Gaulish *kumbos (“curved”). Related to *kumbā (“valley”).

com m (plural coms)

  1. trough, manger
    Synonym: obi
  2. (geography) a steep-sided glacial valley with a level floor
    Synonym: vall d'obi

Possibly from clipping of English compromise.

com

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to reach consensus; to agree on common terms; to discuss

    • 2014, 嶺南人‎[1], number 115:

    • 2017, 嶄越報‎[2], number 24:

      由com莊、nom莊，去到promotion period，經過polling day，再過埋AGM，正式上莊，到依家都差唔多一年，經歷咗好多唔同嘅事 […]

      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

com

  1. pitchfork
  • Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 14

com m (genitive singular coim or coma, nominative plural comanna)

  1. Ulster form of coim (“waist”)

As a first-declension noun:

As a third-declension noun:

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
com chom gcom
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 24

com (apocopated)

  1. (obsolete) Apocopic form of come

com (apocopated)

  1. (obsolete) Apocopic form of come

    From Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).

    com

    1. Old Latin form of cum
    • com in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    com

    1. first-person singular present of kśěś

    cōm

    1. first/third-person singular past indicative of cuman

    From Vulgar Latin *quomo, from classical Latin quomōdo. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French con, cum, etc.

    com

    1. like; as

    com

    1. how (in what fashion)

    Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”). Compare Fala and Galician con and Spanish con.

    • Rhymes: -õ
    • Hyphenation: com

    com

    2. with; against
      Synonym: contra
      Antonym: a favor de

      Lutamos com os nossos inimigos.

      We fight [against] our enemies.
    4. with; alongside; together with (in the company of)
      Synonyms: junto de, junto com, ao lado de

      Lutamos com os nossos amigos.

      We fight alongside our friends.
    6. with (as a part or accessory of)
      Antonym: sem

      Compramos uma casa com uma garagem e com dois andares.

      We bought a house with a garage and with two storeys.
    8. with (in support of)
      Synonym: a favor de
      Antonym: contra

      Quero saber se meus amigos estão comigo.

      I want to know whether my friend are with me.
    10. with; using (by means of)
      Synonyms: a, usando
      Antonym: sem

      Escrevi o artigo com um lápis.

      I wrote the article with a pencil.
    12. with (as a consequence of)
      Synonyms: por causa de, devido a

      Com a falência da fábrica, ficamos desempregados.

      With the bankruptcy of the factory, we ended up unemployed.
    14. with; having
      Synonym: tendo
      Antonym: sem

      Estou com a pior dor de cabeça que o mundo já viu.

      I have the worst headache the world has ever seen.

    The following com + prepositional pronoun phrases have mandatory contractions:

    The following are mandatory except when the phrase is qualified by an adjective phrase, such as mesmos or todos:

    Com + article contraction are colloquial, but are common in speech:

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:com.

    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: ku
    • Kabuverdianu: ku
    • Macanese: co
    • Papiamentu: ku, cu

    From Old Irish comm.[1] Cognate with Irish coim.

    com m (genitive singular cuim, plural cuim)

    1. bosom, breast, chest
    2. trunk (body)
    3. stomach
    Scottish Gaelic mutation
    Radical Lenition
    com chom
    Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
    1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 coim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
    2. ^ Faclair.com
    • (Oro Naoʼ, Oro Mon) IPA(key): /kom/

    com n

    1. water
    • Everett, Daniel, Kern, Barbara (1997) Wari': the Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil, London: Routledge.
    • Sousa, Maria de Fátima Lima de (2009) Dicionário da Língua Wari’ dialeto Oro Mon – Português [Dictionary of the Wari' Language, Oro Mon Dialect]‎[4] (in Portuguese), Guajará-Mirim: Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia-UNIR, page 74.

    Related to Persian جام (jâm).

    com

    1. glass