comer

Spanish

verb
Definitions
  • to eat
  • (colloquial) to eat away, corrode
  • (transitive) to capture a piece
  • (double entendre) to have sexual intercourse because of similarity to coger

Etymology

Inherited from Latin comedere derived from Proto-Italic *edō derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (eat, related to eating).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₁ed-

Gloss

eat, related to eating

Concept
Semantic Field

Food and drink

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji
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