comer

to eat; to have lunch; to eat away, corrode; to capture a piece; to have sexual intercourse (because of similarity to coger)

“¿Cómo como? ¿Cómo cómo como? ¡Como como como! (classroom example of written accent)” — How do I eat? What do you mean, how do I eat? I eat like I eat!

Inherited from Old Spanish comer, from Vulgar Latin *comēre, restructuring of Latin comedere.

comer is masculine in Spanish.

eating, food

“quitárselo uno de su comer” — to deprive oneself of something for the benefit of others

Inherited from Old Spanish comer, from Vulgar Latin *comēre, restructuring of Latin comedere.