Home › Words › C › comescomes/ˈkəʊmiːz/comes means the answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.comes is pronounced /ˈkəʊmiːz/.EtymologyBorrowed from Latin comes (“a companion”). Doublet of comte, conte, and count.nounThe answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.contrapunctus 60% match — A fugue. vs comes →counterfugue 59% match — A fugue in which the answer or imitation to the melody is played in an inverse manner. vs comes →fugue 58% match — A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody. vs comes →codetta 53% match — A brief coda, or a brief segment between the themes of a fugue. vs comes →countersubject 52% match — The secondary melody in contrapuntal music. vs comes →come 52% match — To move nearer to the point of perspective. vs comes →attacco 52% match — A short musical phrase treated as a point of imitation, for example as the subject of a fugue. vs comes →comp 51% match — To accompany, in music. vs comes →