com

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English

Alternative forms

• com., COM, COM.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Adjective

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

Derived terms

See also

• com ruou

Anagrams

• CMO, MCO, MOC, OMC, moc

Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• còm (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔm]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkom]

Adverb

com

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• cóm (pre-2016 spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkom]

Noun

com m (plural coms)

1. trough, manger

   Synonym: obi

2. (geography) a steep-sided glacial valley with a level floor

   Synonym: vall d'obi

Related terms

• coma

Further reading

• “com” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cóm” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “com”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “com” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 襟 (kam¹)

Etymology

Possibly from clipping of English compromise.

Pronunciation

Verb

com

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

Derived terms

Highland Popoluca

Noun

com

1. pitchfork

Further reading

• 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

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kʌmˠ/

Noun

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

1. Ulster form of coim (“waist”)

Declension

As a first-declension noun:

As a third-declension noun:

Mutation

References

Italian

Adverb

com (apocopated)

1. (obsolete) Apocopic form of come

Conjunction

com (apocopated)

1. (obsolete) Apocopic form of come

Anagrams

• OMC

Latin

Etymology

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

Preposition

com (+ ablative)

1. Old Latin form of cum

References

• com in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• cu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡sɔm]

Verb

com

1. first-person singular present of kśěś

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koːm/

Verb

cōm

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

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• con
• cum

Etymology

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

Conjunction

com

1. like; as

Adverb

com

1. how (in what fashion)
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, E mainh genh se volv e's vira

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “quomodo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1542

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• c, c/ (abbreviation)
• cum (eye dialect)
• cõ (obsolete, abbreviation)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -õ
• Hyphenation: com

Preposition

com

2. with; against

   Synonym: contra

   Antonym: a favor de
4. with; alongside; together with (in the company of)

   Synonyms: junto de, junto com, ao lado de

6. with (as a part or accessory of)

   Antonym: sem

8. with (in support of)

   Synonym: a favor de

   Antonym: contra

10. with; using (by means of)

    Synonyms: a, usando

    Antonym: sem

12. with (as a consequence of)

    Synonyms: por causa de, devido a

14. with; having

    Synonym: tendo

    Antonym: sem

Usage notes

The following com + prepositional pronoun phrases have mandatory contractions:

• com + mim → comigo
• com + ti → contigo
• com + si → consigo

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

• com + nós → connosco (Portugal), conosco (Brazil)
• com + vós → convosco

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

• com + o → co
• com + os → cos
• com + a → ca
• com + as → cas
• com + um → cum
• com + uns → cuns
• com + uma → cuma
• com + umas → cumas

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:com.

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish comm. Cognate with Irish coim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔum/

Noun

com m (genitive singular cuim, plural cuim)

1. bosom, breast, chest
2. trunk (body)
3. stomach

Derived terms

• teanntachd-cuim

Mutation

References

Wari'

Pronunciation

• (Oro Naoʼ, Oro Mon) IPA^(key): /kom/

Noun

com n

1. water

References

• 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.

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Persian جام (jâm).

Noun

com

1. glass