comê

See also: come, comé, Côme, and com'è

Indo-Portuguese

Etymology

Portuguese comer (“to eat”), from Old Galician-Portuguese comer, from Latin comedere (“to eat or chew up”).

Verb

comê

1. to eat (to consume food)
   • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:

     Trasê tamêm um vaquinh bem gord e matá par nós comê e par nós regalá:

     Bring also a small and very fat cow and kill (it) for us to eat and for us to feast on:

Macanese

Etymology

From Indo-Portuguese comê, from Portuguese comer (“to eat”), from Old Galician-Portuguese comer, from Latin comedere (“to eat or chew up”).

Verb

comê

1. to eat

   comê caril ― to eat curry

   comê babáu ― to be disappointed, disillusioned (literally, “to eat disappointed”)

   comê negâ ― to eat and deny (having eaten)

   comê quí ravirâ ― to eat to the point of turning over

   dâ comê ― to feed (literally, “to give to eat”)

   comê ramatâ ― to eat everything up

   Vai comê jagra! ― Go to hell! Get lost! (literally, “Go eat muscovado sugar!”)

2. (figurative) to consume

   Êle tâ comê pensám ― He is drawing his retirement pension (literally, “He is eating pension”)

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Portuguese

Verb

comê

1. Apocopic form of comer; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
2. Eye dialect spelling of comer, representing Brazil Portuguese.