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Comitia
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Co-mi′ti-a
,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.
Definition 2024
comitia
comitia
English
Noun
comitia (plural comitia)
- (historical) A popular legislative assembly in ancient Rome
Translations
a popular legislative assembly in ancient Rome
See also
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
Related terms
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
- to hold a meeting of the people: comitia habere
- 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