coma

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊmə/

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• (US) enPR: kōʹmə, IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊmə/
• Rhymes: (UK) -əʊmə, (US) -oʊmə
• Homophone: comber (non-rhotic)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma (plural comas)

1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

   go into a coma

   slip into a coma

   come out of a coma

   • 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:

     I wonder if a person who comes out of a coma feels refreshed and well rested.

• comatose

• persistent vegetative state
• brain death

Borrowed from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

coma (plural comae)

1. (astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
2. (optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
3. (botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

• AMOC, OAMC, camo, maco

coma

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comer

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈko.ma]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comes)

1. coma (deep sleep)

• comatós

Borrowed from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).

coma f (plural comes)

1. comma (punctuation mark)
2. (music) comma (type of rest)

• cometa
• punt i coma

From Gaulish *kumba, from Proto-Celtic *kumbā (“valley”). Compare Occitan comba, French combe.

coma f (plural comes)

1. combe, cwm, cirque

   Synonym: circ

2. an alpine meadow situated between two peaks

• com

• “coma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “coma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “coma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.maː/

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• Hyphenation: co‧ma
• Rhymes: -oːmaː

Borrowed from Latin coma, from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma).

coma n (plural coma's)

1. coma (state of unconsciousness)

Borrowed from Latin coma, from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē).

coma f (plural coma's, diminutive comaatje n)

1. coma (head of a comet)

Learned borrowing from Latin cōma, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ma/

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• Homophone: comas

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma (state of unconsciousness)
   • 1825, Etienne-Marin Bailly, Traité anatomico-pathologique des fièvres intermittentes simples et pernicieuses:

     Le coma suivi de symptômes convulsifs, est moins dangereux que lorsqu'il leur succède, à moins que dans ce dernier cas il soit nerveux, et que le malade se réveille facilement, on exécute, sinon des mouvements volontaires, au moins des mouvements automatiques.

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• comater
• comateux

• → Persian: کما (komâ)
• → Turkish: koma

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkomɐ/

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coma, this from Latin como plus either ad or ac.

coma

1. as (to the same degree that)

   Non es tan alto coma Xan ― You're not as tall as John.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coma (“mane”), from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

coma f (plural comas)

1. coma (of a comet)
2. mane (of a horse)

   Synonym: crina

Learned borrowing from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “I cut”).

coma f (plural comas)

1. (typography) comma

   Synonym: vírgula

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma (deep sleep)

• comatoso

coma

1. inflection of comer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “coma”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

coma (uncountable)

1. coma

• comatose

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Hyphenation: cò‧ma

Borrowed from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē).

coma f (plural come)

1. (literary, obsolete) synonym of chioma
2. (optics, uncountable) coma

• coma¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).

coma m (plural comi)

1. (typography) alternative form of comma (“punctuation mark”)

• coma² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (invariable)

1. coma (deep sleep)

• comatoso

• coma³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• camo, macò, moca

coma f (plural comes)

1. (Val di Fassa, law) subsection
2. (Val di Fassa, orthography) comma

   Synonym: vìrgola

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair of the head”). For sense 2, compare crīniō (“to cover with leaves, or hair”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.ma]

coma f (genitive comae); first declension

1. The hair of the head.

   Synonyms: crīnis, capillus

2. foliage, ears, blades, stalks of trees, grass (as though resembling hair)

First-declension noun.

• comātus
• comula

• comētēs

• “coma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "coma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “coma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• Rhymes: -omɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧ma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma, state of unconsciousness

• comatoso

Borrowed from Latin coma.

coma f (plural comas)

1. abundant hair of the head

   Synonym: cabeleira

2. mane
3. (astronomy) comet coma

• crina

Learned borrowing from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).

coma f (plural comas)

1. (archaic, grammar) comma
2. (music) comma
3. (music) eighth rest

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coma

1. inflection of comer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “coma”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “coma”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “coma” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “coma”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “coma”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “coma”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Old Irish cummae, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm-smiyo-, from *ḱóm (“beside, with, by”) + *sem- (“one, as one”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰomə/

coma

1. indifferent, unconcerned

   Tha e coma. ― He couldn't care less.

   'S mi a tha coma dè thachras. ― I don't give a damn what happens.

   Coma de sin! ― Never mind that! Forget that!

   Is coma sin ― It doesn't matter.

2. reckless, careless
3. expressing dislike or even hate when used with le

   Is coma leam thu ― I hate you.

   Is coma leis an rìgh Eòghann agus is coma le Eòghann co-dhiù ― The king doesn't like Eòghann, but Eòghann doesn't care whether the king likes him or not.

• coma-co-dhiù

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cummae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoma/ [ˈko.ma]

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• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: co‧ma

Borrowed from Latin comma.

coma f (plural comas)

1. comma (punctuation mark)
2. (church) misericord
3. (music) section

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

coma m (plural comas)

1. coma (deep sleep)

Borrowed from Latin coma.^[1]

coma f (plural comas)

1. (rare) mane

   Synonym: crin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coma

1. inflection of comer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “coma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English comma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔma/

coma m (plural comas)

1. comma

   Synonym: atalnod