different between comer vs visitant

English

Etymology

From Middle English comere, equivalent to come +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?m?/

Noun

comer (plural comers)

1. One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
2. (figuratively) One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory.
3. One who arrives.

Quotations

• 2004 August 9 & 16, The New Yorker, page 40:

  The transition from comer to also-ran can be quick.

• 2004 December 6, The New Yorker, page 105:

  Django, then, was not just a comer; he was a cause.

• 1959 August, American Heritage, Volume 10, Issue 5:

  Sullivan went on an unprecedented barnstorming tour across the country, taking on all comers and offering $1,000 to anyone who stayed four rounds, Oueensberry rules.

Related terms

• come

Translations

Anagrams

• crome

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin comedere, present active infinitive of comed?.

Verb

comer (first-person singular indicative present como, past participle comíu)

1. to eat

Conjugation

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese comer, from Latin comedere, present active infinitive of comed?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ko?me?]

Verb

comer (first-person singular present como, first-person singular preterite comín, past participle comido)

1. to eat

Conjugation

Related terms

• dar de comer

References

• “comer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “comer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “comer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “comer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “comer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin comedere, present active infinitive of comed?.

Verb

comer

1. to eat

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese comer (“to eat”), from Latin comedere, present active infinitive of comed?, from com- + ed? (“I eat”). Ed? derives from Proto-Italic *ed?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed- (“to eat”).

Cognate with Galician comer, Mirandese comer, quemer, Asturian comer and Spanish comer.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: co?mer

Verb

comer (first-person singular present indicative como, past participle comido)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat
   1. (intransitive) to consume meals

   2. (transitive) to consume a specific food

   3. (transitive with de) to eat some of a food

2. (transitive, chess, board games) to capture (eliminate a piece from the game)

   Synonym: capturar

3. (transitive) to corrode; to eat away, to destroy (to slowly destroy)

   Synonym: corroer

4. (transitive, by extension, colloquial) to use up; to eat up; to consume

   Synonyms: consumir, usar, utilizar

5. (transitive, vulgar) to fuck; to screw (to penetrate sexually)

   Synonyms: foder, penetrar

6. (transitive, vulgar, by extension) to have any sexual or otherwise libidinous relationship with someone
7. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of comer
8. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of comer
9. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of comer
10. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of comer

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:comer.

Synonyms

• (to eat): alimentar-se
• (to have sex): faturar, papar, traçar

Derived terms

• vi com esses olhos que a terra há de comer

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kume
• Kabuverdianu: kume
• Malay: kumi
• Papiamentu: kome

Noun

comer m (plural comeres)

1. (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) food; meal

Synonyms

• (food): comida, refeição

Further reading

• “comer” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “comer” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “comer” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “comer” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “comer” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “comer” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin comedere, present active infinitive of comed?, from com- + ed?.Ed? derives from Proto-Italic *ed?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed- (“to eat”).

Cognate with Galician comer, Mirandese comer, quemer, Asturian comer and Portuguese comer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?me?/, [ko?me?]

Verb

comer (first-person singular present como, first-person singular preterite comí, past participle comido)

1. to eat

2. (colloquial) to eat away, corrode
3. (transitive, chess, board games) to capture a piece
4. (double entendre, Mexico) to have sexual intercourse (because of similarity to coger)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Noun

comer m (plural comeres)

1. eating, food

   Synonyms: alimento, comida

Further reading

• “comer” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From French visitant, present participle of visiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?t?nt/

Noun

visitant (plural visitants)

1. One who visits; a guest; a visitor.
   • 1612-13, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Act I, Scene III,^[1]

     Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, / That is not kept in chains and close-pent rooms, / But in fair lightsome lodgings, and is girt / With the wild noise of prattling visitants, / Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.

   • 1678, Robert South, "Prevention of Sin an unvaluable Mercy: or A sermon preached upon that subject on 1 Sam. XXV.32, 33," in Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Oxford University Press, 1842, Vol. 2, p. 9,^[2]

     One visit is enough to begin an acquaintance; and this point is gained by it, that when the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger.

   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion, Book 1, 906-909,^[3]

     Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain

     Clings cruelly to us, like the gnawing sloth

     On the deer’s tender haunches: late, and loth,

     ’Tis scar’d away by slow returning pleasure.

   • 1949, Sinclair Lewis, The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, Chapter 2, p. 13,

     Mrs. Treadhill, stringy but pleasant, met the visitants in the kitchen, and whined, "He’s failing fast. […] "

2. A spectre or ghost.
   • 1905, Lafcadio Hearn, "The Mirror Maiden" in The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories, Houghton Mifflin, p. 134,^[4]

     Matsumura felt almost sure that his ghostly visitant had been none other than the Soul of the Mirror.

   • 1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod, New York: Thomas Seltzer, Chapter XIX, p. 310,^[5]

     In the afternoon, Aaron felt the cypresses rising dark about him, like so many high visitants from an old, lost, lost subtle world, where men had the wonder of demons about them, the aura of demons, such as still clings to the cypresses, in Tuscany,

3. A migratory bird that makes a temporary stop somewhere.
   • 1964, Alden Holmes Miller and Robert Cyril Stebbins, The Lives of Desert Animals in Joshua Tree National Monument, University of California Press, Chapter 5, p. 49,

     Reëstablishment of such facilities would probably soon draw occasional visitants in special need of rest in their desert flights.

Translations

Adjective

visitant (comparative more visitant, superlative most visitant)

1. Visiting.
   • 1677, Thomas d’Urfey, Madam Fickle, or, The Witty False One, London: James Magnes & Richard Bentley, Act III, Scene 2, p. 33,^[6]

     Now the plots unravell’d: I begin to have a knowledge of the visitant Kinsman that us’d to molest us.

   • 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part Two, Chapter 6,

     Sermons were not encouraged, as the demand on the use of the famous altar by visitant priests and their pilgrims was heavy on Sunday mornings, and even a short sermon held up the next Mass on the list.

Anagrams

• nativist

Catalan

Verb

visitant

1. present participle of visitar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.zi.t??/

Verb

visitant

1. present participle of visiter

Latin

Verb

v?sitant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of v?sit?