comitium

See also: Comitium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈmi.ti.um/, [kɔˈmɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈmit.t͡si.um/, [koˈmit̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

comitium n (genitive comitiī or comitī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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).

Related terms

• comitia
• comitiālis
• comitiātus
• comitiō

 

Descendants

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

References

• “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, 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