{"id":6758,"date":"2011-11-08T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2011-11-08T19:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T03:58:46","slug":"where-the-word-comet-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/where-the-word-comet-comes-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Word &#8220;Comet&#8221; Comes From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/etymology-comet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6759\" title=\"etymology-comet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/etymology-comet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/etymology-comet.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/etymology-comet-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComet\u201d comes from the Latin \u201ccometes\u201d, which in turn comes from the Greek \u201ckometes\u201d, meaning \u201clong-haired\u201d.\u00a0 This all in turn comes from Aristotle using a derivation of the Greek \u201ckoun\u201d, \u201ckountng\u201d (\u201cstars with hair\u201d), which eventually came to be \u201ckometes\u201d (long-haired) and then \u201ccometes\u201d, in Latin, and finally \u201ccomet\u201d in English.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-difference-between-an-asteroid-and-a-comet\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## \u201cComet\u201d comes from the Latin \u201ccometes\u201d, which in turn comes from the Greek \u201ckometes\u201d, meaning \u201clong-haired\u201d.\u00a0 This all in turn comes from Aristotle using a derivation of the Greek \u201ckoun\u201d, \u201ckountng\u201d (\u201cstars with hair\u201d), which eventually came to be \u201ckometes\u201d (long-haired) and then \u201ccometes\u201d, in Latin, and finally \u201ccomet\u201d in English. Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[328,783,782,784],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-astronomy","tag-astronomy-language","tag-etymology-comet","tag-greek-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}