coma

See also: comma, čoma, čomā, and cơ mà

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

coma (plural comas)

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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 should be 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.
Translations

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

coma

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

Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Noun

coma m (plural comes)

  1. coma (deep sleep)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

  1. comma (punctuation mark)
Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: co‧ma

Noun

coma n (plural coma's)

  1. coma (state of unconsciousness)

Noun

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

  1. coma (head of a comet)

French

Noun

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.
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

Further reading

Galician

Verb

coma

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

coma m (invariable)

  1. coma (sleep)

Anagrams

Ladin

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

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

Synonyms

  • (comma): vìrgola

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair of the head”), which is of uncertain origin and sometimes linked to κόμέω (“to care for (in the sense of hair)”).

Pronunciation

Noun

coma f (genitive comae); first declension

  1. The hair of the head.
  2. foliage

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative coma comae
genitive comae comārum
dative comae comīs
accusative comam comās
ablative comā comīs
vocative coma comae

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • 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, 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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkomɐ/
  • Hyphenation: co‧ma

Etymology 1

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

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. coma, state of unconsciousness

Etymology 2

From Latin coma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. abundant hair of the head
  2. mane
  3. (astronomy) comet coma
Synonyms

See also

Etymology 3

Verb

coma

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of comer
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of comer
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of comer
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of comer

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈko.mə/

Adjective

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!
  2. reckless, careless
  3. or 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.

Derived terms

References

  • “cummae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoma/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin comma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. coma

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin coma[1].

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. (rare) mane
Synonyms

Etymology 4

Verb

coma

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of comer.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of comer.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of comer.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of comer.

References

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English comma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔma/

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. comma

Synonyms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
coma goma nghoma choma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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