different between blackhead vs comedo

English

Etymology

black + head

Noun

blackhead (countable and uncountable, plural blackheads)

1. (countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
2. (uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
3. (countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.

Translations

Further reading

• blackhead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Blackhead in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

English

Etymology

From Latin comed? (“glutton”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??mi?d??/
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• coomed

Italian

Alternative forms

• commedo

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?moedus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k?m?idós, “chorus singer; comic poet”), from ??????? (k?m?idía, “comedy, play”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?m?.do/
• Rhymes: -?do
• Hyphenation: co?mè?do

Noun

comedo m (plural comedi) (literary)

1. A writer of comedies.
2. An actor of comedies.

Related terms

• commedia

See also

• tragedo

References

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

Latin

Etymology

From con- +? ed? (“I eat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko.me.do?/, [?k?m?d?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.me.do/, [?k??m?d??]

Verb

comed? (present infinitive comedere or com?sse, perfect active com?d?, supine com?sum); third conjugation, irregular

1. I eat or chew up
2. I consume or devour
3. I fret or chafe
4. I waste or squander

Conjugation

• Perf. pass. part. can also be comestus.

Derived terms

• com?sor/comestor
• comestibilis
• comesti?
• com?sus
• comest?ra

Descendants

• Latin: comestib?lis
  • French: comestible
    • English: comestible
  • Italian: commestibile
  • Ligurian: comestìbile
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: comer
  • Extremaduran: comer
  • Mirandese: comer, quemer
  • Leonese: comere, comer
• Old Portuguese: comer
  • Galician: comer
  • Portuguese: comer
• Old Spanish: comer
  • Ladino: komer, kumer
  • ? Sicilian: commeder
  • ? Sardinian: còmere, comire, cumire

Noun

comed? m (genitive comed?nis); third declension

1. A glutton, gormandizer.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (glutton): d?gul?tor, gl?t?, hellu?

References

• 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