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.
2. (historical) A county, shire.

• posse comitatus

Perfect participle of comitor, from comes.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko.miˈtaː.tus/, [kɔmɪˈt̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.miˈta.tus/, [komiˈt̪äːt̪us]

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

1. accompanied, guarded, served, attended; having been accompanied, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.579–580:

     “‘[...] coniugiumque, domumque, patrēs, nātōsque vidēbit,
     Īliadum turbā et Phrygiīs comitāta ministrīs?’”

     “‘And [Helen] will [again] see her husband, home, parents, and children, attended by her train: Trojan [women] and Phrygian slaves?’”
     (An expression of surprise or indignation posed as a question.)

First/second-declension adjective.

• incomitātus

• “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, pages 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 noun.

• comitātensis
• comitālis (Medieval Latin)

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cŏmĭtātŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 348/2.
• comitatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) 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: E. J. Brill, pages 207–209