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Comitia


Co-mi′ti-a

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Noun.
pl.
[L.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.
☞ There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or assembly of the patricians, who voted in curiæ; comitia centuriata, or assembly of the whole Roman people, who voted by centuries; and comitia tributa, or assembly of the plebeians according to their division into tribes.

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comitia

comitia

English

Noun

comitia (plural comitia)

  1. (historical) A popular legislative assembly in ancient Rome

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Latin

Etymology

From the plural of comitium

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈmi.ti.a/, [kɔˈmɪ.ti.a]

Noun

comitia n pl (genitive comitiōrum); second declension

  1. A Roman assembly for elections.

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References

  • comitia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • comitia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • COMITIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “comitia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to hold a meeting of the people: comitia habere
    • meetings for the election of officers: comitia magistratibus creandis
  • comitia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • comitia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • comitia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin