Etymograph

English

comitatus

Comitatus comes from Latin comitatus ‘company or troop of soldiers’, and goes back to comes.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomes1‘companion’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomitor2
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomitatus1‘company or troop of soldiers’
  4. Englishtodaycomitatus1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English comitatus
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin comitatus

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomesWiktionary, English comitatus‘companion’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomitorWiktionary, Latin comitatus
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomitatusWiktionary, English comitatus‘company or troop of soldiers’
  4. EnglishtodaycomitatusWiktionary, English comitatus

Linked words

through Latin comes ‘companion’

comes, count, conte, 7 more

through Latin comitor

concomitant, 1 more

through Latin comitatus ‘company or troop of soldiers’

county, 2 more

Today it means

noun A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “comitatus”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin comitatus. 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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