Etymograph

English

comital

Comital comes from Latin comes ‘count, earl, companion, comrade’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomes1‘count, earl, companion, comrade’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2004comital1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English comital
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2004, Richard Ewing Barton, Lordship of the County of Maine: “Comital charters for religious institutions provide important evidence for…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomesWiktionary, English comital‘count, earl, companion, comrade’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2004comitalWiktionary, English comital. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2004, Richard Ewing Barton, Lordship of the County of Maine: “Comital charters for religious institutions provide important evidence for…”

Linked words

through Latin comes ‘count, earl, companion, comrade’

county, comes, count, conte, concomitant, 7 more

Today it means

adj Of or pertaining to a count or earl.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “comital”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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