comer

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌmɚ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)

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.
   • 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.

3. One who arrives.

   The champ will face all comers.

   • 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, Queensberry rules.

• dot-comer (etymologically unrelated)

• crome

From Vulgar Latin *comere, restructuring of Latin comedere.

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeɾ/, [koˈmeɾ]

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

1. to eat

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese comer, from Vulgar Latin *comere, restructuring of Latin comedere.

• IPA^(key): [koˈmeɾ]

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

1. to eat

• dar de comer

• “comer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “comer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

From Vulgar Latin *comere, restructuring of Latin comedere.

comer

1. to eat

From Old Portuguese comer (“to eat”), from Vulgar Latin *comere, restructuring of Latin comedere.

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

• Hyphenation: co‧mer

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

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

      Já comi hoje, obrigado. ― I've already eaten today, thanks.

   2. (transitive) to consume a specific food

      Você come carne? ― Do you eat meat?

      Estou com vontade de comer um pedaço de torta. ― I feel like eating a slice of pie.

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

      Eu como de tudo. ― I eat [some of] everything. (indicates that the speaker is not a fussy eater)

      Você comeu da carne? ― Did you eat some of the meat?

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

   Agora comi a torre e o bispo. ― Now I have captured the rook and the bishop.

   Synonym: capturar

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

   A chuva comeu a grade. ― The rain ate away the grate.

   Aquela pneumonia comeu sua saúde. ― That pneumonia has destroyed his health.

   Synonym: corroer

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

   Já comi todo o meu salário. ― I have already eaten up my entire salary.

   Este carro não come muita gasolina. ― This car doesn't use much petrol.

   Synonyms: consumir, usar, utilizar

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

   Depois do jantar, na mesma noite eu a comi. ― After dinner, that same night I fucked her.

   Synonym: foder

6. (transitive, vulgar, by extension) to have any sexual or otherwise libidinous relationship with someone
7. inflection of comer:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

For quotations using this term, see Citations:comer.

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

• vi com estes olhos que a terra há de comer

• Kabuverdianu: kume
• Papiamentu: kome
• → Malay: kumi

comer m (plural comeres)

1. (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) food; meal

   Synonyms: comida, refeição

   O comer está na mesa! ― Food is on the table!

• “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, 2003–2023.
• “comer” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “comer” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Vulgar Latin *comere, restructuring of Latin comedere.

• IPA^(key): /koˈmeɾ/ [koˈmeɾ]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: co‧mer

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

1. to eat

   ¿Cómo como? ¿Cómo cómo como? ¡Como como como! (classroom example of written accent)

   How do I eat? What do you mean, how do I eat? I eat like I 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)

• → Sardinian: comere

comer m (plural comeres)

1. eating, food

   quitárselo uno de su comer

   to deprive oneself of something for the benefit of others

   el comer fuera es muy común

   eating out is very common

   ...necesario para el alma como el comer para el cuerpo

   ...necessary for the soul like food for the body

   Synonyms: alimento, comida

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