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comedo

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin comedō (glutton).

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Noun

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comedo (plural comedones or comedos)

  1. (medicine) A blackhead or whitehead.
    • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
      Lying on, in, under her, I pore with squinnying eyes on a mole on that browngold rivercolour riverripple skin with its smell of sun, or else a tiny unsqueezed comedo by the flat and splaying nose.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin cōmoedus, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδός (kōmōidós, chorus singer; comic poet), from κωμῳδία (kōmōidía, comedy, play).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /koˈmɛ.do/
  • Rhymes: -ɛdo
  • Hyphenation: co‧mè‧do

Noun

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comedo m (plural comedi) (literary)

  1. a writer of comedies
  2. an actor of comedies
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Further reading

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

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From con- +‎ edō (I eat).

Verb

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comedō (present infinitive comedere or comēsse, perfect active comēdī, supine comēsus or comēstus); third conjugation, irregular

  1. to eat or chew up
  2. to consume or devour
  3. to fret or chafe
  4. to waste or squander
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Descendants
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  • Vulgar Latin: *comēre (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

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From comedō +‎ .

Noun

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comedō m (genitive comedōnis); third declension

  1. glutton, gormandizer
    Synonyms: cataphagās, comēstor, dēgulātor, edō, gāneō, glūtō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, helluō, lurcō, mandō, mandūcō, mandūcus, phagō, polyphagus
Declension
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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative comedō comedōnēs
genitive comedōnis comedōnum
dative comedōnī comedōnibus
accusative comedōnem comedōnēs
ablative comedōne comedōnibus
vocative comedō comedōnēs

References

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  • comedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • comedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • comedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.