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4-letter words (2 found)

CAMO,COMA,

3-letter words (6 found)

CAM,MAC,MOA,MOC,OCA,OMA,

2-letter words (4 found)

AM,MA,MO,OM,

You can make 12 words from coma according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of coma

coma ocma cmoa mcoa omca moca coam ocam caom acom oacm aocm cmao mcao camo acmo maco amco omac moac oamc aomc maoc amoc

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Definitions and meaning of coma

coma

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊmə/
  • (US) enPR: kōʹmə, IPA(key): /ˈkoʊmə/
  • Rhymes: (UK) -əʊmə, (US) -oʊmə
  • 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.
    go into a coma
    slip into a coma
    come out of a coma
Derived terms
Related terms
  • comatose
Translations
See also
  • persistent vegetative state
  • brain death

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 in an ideal image would appear as 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

  • AMOC, OAMC, camo, maco

Asturian

Verb

coma

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.mə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈko.ma]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

coma m (plural comes)

  1. coma (deep sleep)
Related terms
  • comatós

Etymology 2

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

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

  1. comma (punctuation mark)
  2. (music) comma (type of rest)
Derived terms
  • cometa
  • punt i coma

Etymology 3

From Gaulish *kumba, from Proto-Celtic *kumbā (“valley”). Compare Occitan comba, French combe.

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

  1. combe, cwm, cirque
    Synonym: circ
  2. an alpine meadow situated between two peaks
Derived terms
Related terms
  • com

Further reading

  • “coma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “coma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “coma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “coma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoː.maː/
  • Hyphenation: co‧ma
  • Rhymes: -oːmaː

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin coma, from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma).

Noun

coma n (plural coma's)

  1. coma (state of unconsciousness)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin coma, from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē).

Noun

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

  1. coma (head of a comet)

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cōma, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ.ma/
  • Homophone: comas

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. coma (state of unconsciousness)

Derived terms

  • comater
  • comateux

Descendants

  • → Turkish: koma

Further reading

  • “coma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkomɐ/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coma, this from Latin como plus either ad or ac.

Conjunction

coma

  1. as (to the same degree that)
    Non es tan alto coma Xan ― You're not as tall as John.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coma (“mane”), from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. coma (of a comet)
  2. mane (of a horse)
    Synonym: crina

Etymology 3

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “I cut”).

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. (typography) comma
    Synonym: vírgula

Etymology 4

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

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. coma (deep sleep)
Related terms
  • comatoso

Etymology 5

Verb

coma

  1. inflection of comer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

References

  • “coma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “coma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “coma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “coma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “coma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Further reading

  • “coma” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Interlingua

Noun

coma (uncountable)

  1. coma

Related terms

  • comatose

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ɔma
  • Hyphenation: cò‧ma

Etymology 1

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

Noun

coma f (plural come)

  1. (literary, obsolete) Synonym of chioma
  2. (optics, uncountable) coma

Further reading

  • coma1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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

Noun

coma m (plural comi)

  1. (typography) Alternative form of comma (“punctuation mark”)

Further reading

  • coma2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

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

Noun

coma m (invariable)

  1. coma (deep sleep)
Related terms
  • comatoso

Further reading

  • coma3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • camo, macò, moca

Ladin

Noun

coma f (plural comes)

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma/, [ˈkɔmä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma/, [ˈkɔːmä]

Noun

coma f (genitive comae); first declension

  1. The hair of the head.
    Synonym: crīnis
  2. foliage

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • comātus
  • comula

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

  • Hyphenation: co‧ma

Etymology 1

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

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. coma, state of unconsciousness
Related terms
  • comatoso

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin coma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. abundant hair of the head
    Synonym: cabeleira
  2. mane
  3. (astronomy) comet coma

See also

  • crina

Etymology 3

Learned borrowing from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. (archaic, grammar) comma
  2. (music) comma
  3. (music) eighth rest

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

coma

  1. inflection of comer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “coma” in iDicionário Aulete.
  • “coma” in Dicionário inFormal.
  • “coma” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
  • “coma” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  • “coma” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
  • “coma” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰomə/

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!
    Is coma sin ― It doesn't matter.
  2. reckless, careless
  3. 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

  • coma-co-dhiù

Mutation

Further reading

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cummae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoma/ [ˈko.ma]
  • Rhymes: -oma
  • Syllabification: co‧ma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin comma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. comma (punctuation mark)
  2. (church) misericord
  3. (music) section
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. coma (deep sleep)
Related terms

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin coma.

Noun

coma f (plural comas)

  1. (rare) mane
    Synonym: crin

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

coma

  1. inflection of comer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “coma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

References

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English comma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔma/

Noun

coma m (plural comas)

  1. comma
    Synonym: atalnod

Mutation


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