comment

English Online Dictionary. What means comment‎? What does comment mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.ɛnt/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /kaˈment/

Etymology 1

From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).

Noun

comment (countable and uncountable, plural comments)

1. A spoken or written remark.
2. (uncountable) The act of commenting.
4. (linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.

   Synonym: rheme

5. (programming) A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Armenian: քոմենթ (kʻomentʻ)
• → Japanese: コメント (komento)
• → Korean: 코멘트 (komenteu)

Translations

See also

• pragma

Etymology 2

From Middle English commenten, comenten, from Latin commentārī (“to consider thoroughly, think over, discuss, write upon”).

Verb

comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)

1. (transitive) To remark.
2. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
4. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).

5. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• document

Further reading

• “comment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “comment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “comment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

From Old French coment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Adverb

comment

1. how

   Comment te sens-tu ? ― How do you feel?

Derived terms

• comment allez-vous, comment vas-tu, comment ça va (“how are you”)
• comment ça
• comment cela
• comment les zaricos, comment sont les zaricos
• et comment
• n’importe comment
• porquoi du comment

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole: konmen
• Haitian Creole: kouman
• → German: Komment

References

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

• cõment

Adverb

comment

1. how (in a given manner)
2. (interrogative) how (in what manner)

Old French

Adverb

comment

1. Alternative form of comant

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English comment.

Noun

comment m (plural comments)

1. (Internet slang) comment, remark

   Synonym: comentário

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation) cmt

Etymology

From English comment.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kɔm˧˧ mɛn˧˧], [kɔm˨˩ mɛn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɔm˧˧ mɛŋ˧˧], [kɔm˦˩ mɛŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɔm˧˧ mɛŋ˧˧], [kɔm˨˩ mɛŋ˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: com men, còm men

Noun

comment

1. (Internet, social media) comment

Verb

comment

1. (Internet, social media) to comment