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comer.

to eat

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/koˈme(ʁ)/Brazil[koˈme(h)]Brazil/koˈme(ɾ)/São-Paulo/koˈme(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. to eat to consume meals

    ambitransitive · intransitive
    Já comi hoje, obrigado.
  2. to eat to consume a specific food

    ambitransitive · transitive
    Você come carne?
    Estou com vontade de comer um pedaço de torta.
  3. to eat to eat some

    Brazil · ambitransitive · intransitive
    Você comeu da carne?
  4. to capture (eliminate a piece from the game)

    transitive
    Agora comi-te a torre.
  5. to corrode; to eat away, to destroy (to slowly destroy)

    transitive
    A chuva comeu a grade.
    Aquela pneumonia comeu sua saúde.
  6. to use up; to eat up; to consume

    broadly · colloquial · transitive
    Já comi todo o meu salário.
    Este carro não come muita gasolina.
  7. to miss a letter or other symbol in writing

    Brazil · colloquial · transitive
  8. to fuck; to screw (to penetrate sexually)

    transitive · vulgar
    Depois do jantar, na mesma noite eu comi ela.
  9. to fuck; to screw (to penetrate sexually) to fuck (of two or more people)

    broadly · reflexive · transitive · vulgar
    Estão felizes assim porque se comeram
  10. to fuck; to screw (to penetrate sexually) to have any sexual or otherwise libidinous relationship with someone

    broadly · transitive · vulgar
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese comer, from Vulgar Latin *comēre, restructuring of Latin comedere. Cognate with Galician, Mirandese, Asturian, and Spanish comer and Mirandese quemer.

noun/koˈme(ʁ)/Brazil[koˈme(h)]Brazil/koˈme(ɾ)/São-Paulo/koˈme(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. food; meal

    informal · masculine · proscribed · sometimes
    O comer está na mesa!
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese comer, from Vulgar Latin *comēre, restructuring of Latin comedere. Cognate with Galician, Mirandese, Asturian, and Spanish comer and Mirandese quemer.

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