comitatus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin comitatus, from comes (“companion”). Doublet of county, from Anglo-Norman/Old French.

• IPA^(key): /kɒmɪˈteɪtəs/

  Rhymes: -eɪtəs

comitatus (plural comitatuses or comitatus)

1. (historical) A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader.

Perfect participle of comitor, from comes.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko.miˈtaː.tus/, [kɔ.mɪˈtaː.tʊs]

comitātus m (feminine comitāta, neuter comitātum); first/second declension

1. accompanied; guarded; served

First/second declension.

• cŏmĭtātus¹ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cŏmĭtātus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 348/1–2

comitātus m (genitive comitātūs); fourth declension

1. company or troop of soldiers
2. an escort or attending multitude, especially an imperial escort or retinue
3. combination, association
4. county

Fourth declension.

• comitātensis

• cŏmĭtātus² in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• comitatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• comitatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cŏmĭtātŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 348/2
• comitatus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “comitatus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 207–209