comitium

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Latin

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Etymology

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From comes (companion, comrade) +‎ -ium, from com- + the stem of .

Pronunciation

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Noun

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comitium n (genitive comitiī or comitī); second declension

  1. A place in the forum where comitia (election assemblies) were held.

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative comitium comitia
Genitive comitiī
comitī1
comitiōrum
Dative comitiō comitiīs
Accusative comitium comitia
Ablative comitiō comitiīs
Vocative comitium comitia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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Descendants

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  • French: comice
  • Friulian: comizi
  • Italian: comizio
  • Piedmontese: comissi
  • Portuguese: comício
  • Spanish: comicio

References

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  • comitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • comitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • comitium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • comitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to meet for elections: comitiis (Abl.) convenire
    • to be chosen consul at the elections: comitiis consulem creari
  • comitium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • comitium”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
  • comitium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin