comet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →como, comare, -, -:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
be furnished/covered with hair; clothe/deck with hair/something hair-like;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd - Entry →como, comere, compsi, comptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
arrange/do (hair); adorn, make beautiful; embellish; arrange in order, set out;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...dicuntur. Primum si uentus in causa esset, numquam cometes sine uento appareret: nunc autem et quietissimo aere apparet..." 
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...quem matre cadentem Peresius gemino fovit pater amne Cometes, segnior Apidani vires ubi sentit Enipeus, nititur, hinc Talaus..."- P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...nuntia: vis fulgurum non alias crebrior, et sidus cometes, sanguine inlustri semper [Neroni] expiatum; bicipites hominum aliorumve animalium..." - P
Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...dies plerique incesserant, tum exoleverunt. Inter quae sidus cometes effulsit, de quo vulgi opinio est, tamquam mutationem regis..."