Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cometter (obsolete)
• commeter (obsolete)
• commetter (obsolete)

Verb

cometer ‎(first-person singular present indicative cometo, past participle cometido)

1. to commit, practice, undertake
2. (archaic) Obsolete form of acometer.
   • 1614, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinaçam:

     […] , &ao outro dia pella menhã ſendo nos tãto auante como Cezimbra nos cometeo hum Frances coſſairo, & abalroando com noſco,nos lãçou dento quinze ou vinte homẽs, […]

     […] , and in the next day by the morning, when we were as far as Cezimbra, a French corsair assailed us, and colliding with us sent fifteen or twenty men inside, […]

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:cometer.

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin committere, present active infinitive of committō.

Verb

cometer ‎(first-person singular present cometo, first-person singular preterite cometí, past participle cometido)

1. (transitive) to commit
2. (transitive) to make (an error, etc)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• acometer