Old English · noun
cometa
Normalised comēta
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- weak
- Modern English
- comet
Meaning
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comet
An. DCLXXVIII Hēr atēowede comēta se steorra on Auguste ⁊ sċān III monðas ælċe morgen swilċe sunne bēam.
Year 678 In this year a comet star appeared in August and shone like a sunbeam each morning for three months.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin comēta, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “long-haired”).
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