Where does “comer” come from?
comer (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish comer, from Vulgar Latin *comēre, from Latin comedere, from Latin comedo, from Latin edo, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
comer (Spanish): to eat; to eat away, corrode; to capture a piece
Definitions
- to eat; to eat away, corrode; to capture a piece
Ancestry of “comer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Spanish | comer | to eat |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | *comēre | — |
| 3 | Latin | comedere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 4 | Latin | comedo | I eat or chew up; I consume or devour; I fret or... |
| 5 | Latin | edo | I eat; I give out, put or bring forth; eject,... |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |