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 comitati or comitatus)

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

• posse comitatus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔ.mɪˈtaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.miˈtaː.tus]

Perfect active participle of comitor.

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

1. having accompanied, guarded, served, attended

First/second-declension adjective.

• incomitātus

Perfect passive participle of comitō.

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

1. accompanied, guarded, served, attended
   • 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.

From comitor +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

comitātus m (genitive comitātūs); fourth declension

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

Fourth-declension noun.

• comitātēnsis

• “cŏmĭtātus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cŏmĭtātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “comitātus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “comitātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cŏmĭtātus¹”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 348/1–2.
• “cŏmĭtātŭs²”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 348/2.
• "comitatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• comitatus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “comitatus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 207–209