Cometa is not a Comet
The word Comet does not mean Cometa necessarily. If we mean the icy balls that populate the empty spaces of the Solar System moving from somewhere beyond Neptune and the Sun, the answer is yes: a Cometa is a Comet.
If on the contrary we mean the object that when we kids we use "to soar" the sky with, then the answer for sure is no because the word in this case is Kite not Comet.
Why the difference? Well, the word Kite is originally Chinese since kites were an invention of the Chinese of more than 2,000 years ago. It was the British and Dutch merchants that first brought that word to their own countries, not Italy or Spain. In their own turn the populations of these countries learnt of the object first from none other than Marco Polo who probably first compared this object to the "sky" comets when he described them.
In Spanish then these two objects, Comet and Kite, though very different in nature are just called Cometa.
If on the contrary we mean the object that when we kids we use "to soar" the sky with, then the answer for sure is no because the word in this case is Kite not Comet.
Why the difference? Well, the word Kite is originally Chinese since kites were an invention of the Chinese of more than 2,000 years ago. It was the British and Dutch merchants that first brought that word to their own countries, not Italy or Spain. In their own turn the populations of these countries learnt of the object first from none other than Marco Polo who probably first compared this object to the "sky" comets when he described them.
In Spanish then these two objects, Comet and Kite, though very different in nature are just called Cometa.
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