Como, Lake of, one of the chief lakes of Lombardy and the third in size, at the foot of the Pennine Alps, 80 m. long and 2½ at greatest breadth; is traversed by the Adda, and is famed for the beauty and rich variety of its scenery.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Comne`nus * Comorin, Cape